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A US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance launched an offensive Sunday on the Islamic State group's de facto Syrian capital Raqa, upping pressure…

President Bashar al-Assad claimed Western powers are "becoming much weaker" in Syria, in a confident interview published in The Sunday…

Working long hours and skimping on sleep in midlife may lead to poorer physical health in old age, according to…

Ava Duvernay's incendiary prison system investigation '13th' and Ezra Edelman's epic episodic biography "O.J.: Made in America" both received the…

The red-colored cups traditionally rolled out by Starbucks during the end-of-year holiday season are to return from November 10. Red is…

At least 21 people have been killed and dozens more injured after two trains carrying hundreds of passengers collided in…

Paris authorities began an operation early Friday to clear more than 3,000 migrants from a camp in the northeast of…

A 10-hour Russian-declared ceasefire for opposition-held areas of Syria's second city Aleppo began on Friday morning with the goal of…

Fuel prices were to rise dramatically in Egypt on Friday after the central bank floated the currency to address a…

Egypt on Monday marked with a church service a year since jihadists bombed a Russian airliner carrying holidaymakers from a…