The ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah is a major diplomatic breakthrough that follows 13 months of escalating conflict, upheaval and displacement in Lebanon. It starts a 60-day truce that the US and other stakeholders hope will be permanent. In that time, troops from both sides will retreat from southern…
Syrian rebels have launched a large-scale attack on regime forces in western Aleppo, according to a Free Syrian Army…
A ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon is now in force, but many residents of Israel’s northern…
China has suspended a top military official and placed him under investigation for corruption, the defense ministry said, as…
A Chinese acrobat who lost his wife and performance partner to a terrifying fall on stage last year was…
Six so-called “narco subs” stuffed with cocaine were captured in a Colombian-led international anti-drug operation, authorities in the Latin…
Seoul residents awoke to a gleaming world of white this week, as record snowfall caused both disruption and delight…
Russia expelled a British diplomat who worked at the embassy in Moscow Tuesday, accusing him of spying, marking the…
John Tinniswood, the world’s oldest man, has died at the age of 112. Tinniswood died on Monday at a…