When Xi Jinping and Donald Trump sat down in South Korea last month to discuss a pause in their trade war, Taiwan surprisingly didn’t come up. Now the biggest flashpoint between the US and China is ...

As Israel hastens its attacks on Iranian proxies in Syria, amid the fragile ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon, Syrian rebels in the north are resurging to ride these tailwinds with a significant ...

Thousands are believed to have been killed in more than a week of violence pitting troops loyal to President Salva Kiir against those backing his rival Riek Machar, a former vice-president who was ...

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Thousands have fled Sudan's volatile oil town of Abyei after fresh north-south fighting has reignited tensions over the contested area, officials said on Saturday. At least one ...

Some 3,000 civilians fled the Sudanese town of Abyei but are drifting back to the disputed oil district where fighting this year raised fears of a return to civil war, a local official said on Sunday.