Syrian rebels on Friday were surrendering their heavy weapons after reaching a new deal with the government for a central swathe of territory, a war monitor said.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Wednesday that the unrest that had rocked Iran over several days was at an end, and that a maximum of 15,000 people had taken part nationwide.

South Korea Tuesday proposed holding high-level talks with Pyongyang on January 9, after the North's leader Kim Jong-Un called for a breakthrough in relations and said Pyongyang might attend the Winter Olympics.

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Clashes pitting mainly jihadist and rebel fighters against regime forces backed by Russian warplanes killed at 66 people on the edge of Syria's northwestern Idlib province, a monitor said Friday.

Pakistan yesterday arranged a meeting between Indian death row prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav, and his mother and wife for about 40 minutes at the foreign office here but did not allow a private discussion between them.

An Afghan refugee accused of ploughing his car into pedestrians in Melbourne was charged with 18 counts of attempted murder yesterday, as police vowed a boosted presence over the Christmas period.

After playing a whirlwind five games of hockey in seven days, the NHL schedule makers handed the Hawks a deserved break.

The Philippines has suspended the sale and distribution of Sanofi's dengue vaccine, after the French pharmaceutical giant last week warned it could worsen symptoms for people who had not previously been infected.

After half a century of fishing, 65-year-old Fuat, a retired Turkish civil servant, is nostalgic for the good old days when the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul teemed with fish.

Pakistan has withdrawn its request to include the $14bn Diamer-Bhasha Dam in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) framework after Beijing placed strict conditions including ownership of the project, said Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) Chairman Muzammil Hussain yesterday.

The EU took a step towards closer defence ties yesterday, with 23 states signing a landmark pact aiming to boost co-operation after Brexit and as Russia flexes its muscles to the east.