
North Korea has released 22-year-old US student Otto Warmbier from a 15 year sentence of hard labor, officials said Tuesday, as former US basketball star Dennis Rodman arrived in Pyongyang. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert confirmed a message from US Senator Rob Portman announcing the release, 18 months after the ...

The Syrian Army units in cooperation with the allies continued on Tuesday military operations against ISIL terrorists in the countryside of Palmyra, establishing control over an area of 100 square kilometers to the northeast of the city and chasing down terrorists from the area. The Syrian army continued advancing in ...