The United States has completed its military pullback in northeastern Syria, settling into a more stable posture of about 600 troops in the rest of the country after repositioning and reducing forces, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said. Esper’s remarks in an interview with Reuters could signal the end of a ...

Surprising new results include strange flipping of star’s magnetic field   Nasa has revealed the first findings from a pioneering spacecraft sent to “touch the Sun”. The Parker Solar Probe has flown closer than ever before to our Sun and has now sent back its first data from the mission. ...

 Continued inaction would be ‘betrayal of our entire human family and all generations to come’, says Antonio Guterres   The UN secretary general has warned that the planet is close to “the point of no return” and branded global efforts to combat climate change “utterly inadequate”, as world leaders gather for ...

China calls bill a ‘vicious attack’, coming days after Congress passed similar laws over Hong Kong   The US House of Representatives has passed a bill calling for “targeted sanctions” against Chinese officials involved in the repression of Uighur Muslims. The bill, which also calls on Donald Trump to speak ...

U.S. President Donald Trump and French leader Emmanuel Macron clashed over the future of NATO on Tuesday before a summit intended to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Western military alliance. In sharp exchanges underlining discord in a transatlantic bloc hailed by backers as the most successful military pact in ...

  Sudan’s new prime minister has said that residual US sanctions are hastening the collapse of the fragile country, warning that, should Sudan become a failed state, the destruction caused by Isis would be “small fry” in comparison. Speaking exclusively to The Independent before flying to Washington where he is expected to meet President ...

There will be plenty of applause when NATO leaders gather in London to celebrate seven decades of the most successful military alliance in history. But with a French president who calls it “brain dead”, a Turkish leader who is attacking U.S. allies and buying Russian weapons, and an American president ...

All eyes are focused on the tender held by the Energy Ministry to import 150 thousand tons of gasoline by the state’s oil facilities. In this regard, caretaker energy Minister Nada Boustani raised concerns over potential pressures that could have been exerted on the relevant companies so that they do ...

Pro-democracy demonstrators seek to build upon the successes at the recent district council elections – with a number throwing bricks and smoke bombs   Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Hong Kong in a new wave of pro-democracy protests, but they were met with teargas fired by police after some ...

For the first time in Canada, a dramatic change in managing pain.   This is not just a surgery of a mild health disorder. This doctor from the Lebanese coastal city of Batroun has actually released a patient from his daily 8-year pain due to a chronic condition called Complex Regional ...