Beijing reasserted its right Thursday to build «defence» facilities in the disputed South China Sea, but declined to confirm reports it had installed new missiles on artificial islands it has built in the region....
MADRID- Basque separatist group ETA is due to announce its final dissolution this week, ending Western Europe’s last major armed insurgency, a 50-year campaign which killed more than 850 people in Spain. Here is...
DEIR AL-ZOR, Syria/BEIRUT – U.S.-backed Syrian militias on Tuesday relaunched their offensive to seize the last territory Islamic State controls in the east near the border with Iraq. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an...
Missile strikes on central Syria killed 26 pro-regime fighters, most of them Iranians, a monitor said Monday, in a raid that bore the hallmarks of Tehran’s archfoe Israel. The Syrian regime, which denounced a...
THE HAGUE – Russia and Syria presented more than a dozen unharmed people from Ghouta, Syria, at the premises of the Organisation for the Prohibition for Chemical Weapons on Thursday to support claims there...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Thursday that he expected a “re-energized” effort against Islamic State militants in eastern Syria in the coming days. “You’ll see a re-energized effort against the...
The EU on Wednesday urged Russia and Iran to pressure Damascus to engage in talks to end Syria’s bloody civil war, as international donors pledged billions of dollars to help civilians caught up in...
BRUSSELS – Civilians can no longer flee fighting and bombing raids in Syria because borders are so tightly controlled and neighbouring countries are overwhelmed by refugees, creating some of the worst suffering in modern...
JERUSALEM – Iran and Israel traded blame on Sunday for an unprecedented, weeks-long surge in hostilities between their forces over Syria but played down prospects of a spillover into war. A showdown between the...
Varios investigadores internacionales pudieron entrar finalmente este sábado en la ciudad siria de Duma y tomar muestras, dos semanas después de un presunto ataque químico que motivó una ofensiva militar de Occidente contra el...
