Kurdish-led forces in north-eastern Syria have struck a deal with Russia and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in an effort to repel Turkey’s march into the country—as upwards of 750 Islamic State militants (ISIS) escaped from detention centers MORE
Hundreds of relatives of Islamic State fighters fled a Kurdish-run detention camp on Sunday morning after Turkish airstrikes hit the surrounding area, deepening the crisis prompted by the Turkish-led invasion of northern Syria. The escapes came MORE
The commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces told a senior US diplomat, “You are leaving us to be slaughtered,” demanding to know whether the US is going to do anything to protect Syrian Kurds as Turkey MORE
Ras al-Ain (Syria) (AFP) – Ankara stepped up its assault on Kurdish-held border towns in northeastern Syria on Saturday, defying mounting threats of international sanctions, even from Washington. Buoyed by a night of steady advances MORE
“I am the happiest man,” Kipchoge said after the unofficial two-hour marathon, adding that he hopes to have inspired many that “no human is limited.”Kipchoge was on target to break the record during the first half of Vienna’s MORE
Turkish ground forces seized at least one village from Kurdish fighters in northern Syria as they pressed ahead with their assault Thursday, launching airstrikes and unleashing artillery shelling on towns and villages the length of MORE
Speaking to reporters in the Roosevelt room, Trump defended his decision to pull US troops out of Syria enabling Turkey to slaughter the Kurds. Quoting some wing nut article that Trump ‘read’ in Towhnhall, he MORE
Turkish troops have begun an offensive in northern Syria, which could bring them into direct conflict with Kurdish-led forces allied to the United States. The move was announced by Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey MORE
Two people have been killed, and one suspect arrested, in a shooting incident near a synagogue in the eastern German town of Halle, according to local police. CNN: One person was arrested, police said, but other MORE
CNN: Turkey’s military is set to cross into northern Syria “shortly,” the Turkish communications director said, as part of an impending offensive to move US-backed Kurdish forces away from its border.”Turkish military, together with the Free Syrian Army, will MORE
A day after President Donald Trump threatened to “ruin the economy of Turkey” if it goes too far with a planned invasion of northern Syria, he announced on Tuesday that he’s invited Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to MORE
London — A deadly car accident in England has led to a diplomatic standoff with the United States. Harry Dunn, 19, was struck and killed on his motorcycle in late August by a vehicle allegedly driving MORE
Police in the German town of Grünstadt had to subdue an intoxicated man carrying a samurai sword and firing blanks from a starter pistol into the air. A man in a town in Germany’s Rhineland-Palatinate MORE
Portugal votes on Sunday with Prime Minister Antonio Costa’s Socialists tipped to win a second straight term after presiding over a period of solid economic growth following years of austerity. Costa‘s likely re-election bucks the MORE
former top Ukrainian prosecutor, whose allegations were at the heart of the dirt-digging effort by Rudolph W. Giuliani, said Thursday he believed that Hunter Biden did not run afoul of any laws in Ukraine. MORE
Israel’s president has tasked Benjamin Netanyahu with forming a coalition government, throwing a lifeline to the incumbent prime minister after an inconclusive election threatened to end his political career. Reuven Rivlin’s offer does not guarantee Netanyahu MORE
The world’s first museum dedicated entirely to vaginas is set to open in the UK. The London-based Vagina Museum will open its doors for the first time on November 16 following a £50,000 crowdfunding campaign. The museum MORE
A very defensive and irritated Trump held a mini-presser with Ukraine President Zelensky at the United Nations Summit. He touted the United States’ bigly economy, slammed both President Obama and SoS Hillary Clinton, accused Joe MORE
Nearly two decades before Boeing’s MCAS system crashed two of the plane-maker’s brand-new 737 MAX jets, Stan Sorscher knew his company’s increasingly toxic mode of operating would create a disaster of some kind. A long MORE
The supreme court has ruled that Boris Johnson’s advice to the Queen that parliament should be prorogued for five weeks at the height of the Brexit crisis was unlawful. Lawyers for the Scottish claimants and MORE
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif “not confident” war can be avoided MORE
OTTAWA—Justin Trudeau’s 2019 re-election campaign was rocked to its core Wednesday night with the stunning publication of a Time magazine news story and a photo showing the prime minister, then a teacher, wearing brownface makeup MORE
On Thursday, the Taliban claimed responsibility for “a powerful suicide truck bomb that devastated a hospital in southern Afghanistan, ….killing 20 people and wounding 97 others,… while a deadly drone strike in the country’s east MORE
TOKYO — When Miki Dezaki decided to make a documentary for his graduate thesis, he examined a question that reverberates through Japanese politics: Why, 75 years later, does a small but vocal group of MORE