With US withdrawal looming, both powers are testing a fragile detente with competing visions of Damascus's future ...

Belfast rap trio Kneecap have apologised to the families of murdered MPs Sir David Amess and Jo Cox after footage emerged ...

The disarmament of what has been the region's most powerful non-state armed group has come to look increasingly inevitable.

The Irish band said a video extract in which a band member appeared to voice support for killing MPs had been deliberately taken out of context.