Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has vowed to retake an area that supplies Damascus with water and rejected any negotiations on his departure at upcoming talks in Kazakhstan, reports AFP. Millions of people have been without water for weeks after fighting damaged key infrastructure in the Wadi Barada…

Thailand’s new king has ordered sections of the country’s draft constitution to be rewritten, the junta chief said yesterday, a rare public intervention by the monarch in the kingdom’s politics, reports AFP. King Maha Vajiralongkorn, 64, ascended the throne after the October death…

Lebanon seeks cooperation with Saudi Arabia, the country’s Hezbollah-backed President Michel Aoun told Saudi television on Tuesday, after a tense…

Nearly 1.2 million people have been punished in China’s ongoing anti-graft campaign, a senior official has said, promising that the government will double-down on the drive that some say is a political purge reports AFP. As part of the campaign, nearly 2,600 fugitives have been extradited or repatriated,…

Venezuelan opposition lawmakers sought to trigger early elections by passing a key censure motion Monday against President Nicolas Maduro, who is ruling over a national economic crisis and consequent food shortages, reports AFP.The opposition majority in the National Assembly legislature declared that…

An Iraq war vet accused of killing five people in a shooting spree at a Florida airport appeared in court Monday to face federal charges that carry the death penalty, reports AFP. Esteban Santiago, 26, who had told the FBI two months before the shooting that he was hearing voices, was brought before…