
An eighth round of talks on a new constitution for Syria has concluded with rival parties having made very little headway, the UN mediator said. The Syrian Constitutional Committee was created in September 2019 and first convened a month later. The tentative negotiations are aimed at rewriting the war-torn country’s ...

North Korea test-fired a salvo of eight short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea on Sunday, South Korea’s military said. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missiles were fired in succession over 35 minutes from the Sunan area near the capital, Pyongyang. It didn’t immediately say how far the ...