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Map locating control of territory in northeastern Syria after Turkey launched an offensive against Kurdish forces, includes Ankara's planned "buffer zone" and towns with presence of Syrian regime forces.

Opinions will vary widely as to if President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria is an “abandonment” of Kurdish fighters in Syria or is a move to “set things straight” with the Turks. The situation has South Koreans worried that Trump might make a similar move in their country, where nearly 30,000 U.S. troops are stationed, leaving them vulnerable to attacks from North Korea.

According to local reports, all the children were aged between 10 and 11. The canine escaped from its home after its owner left the main door open.

Kurdish fighters battled to defend a key Syrian border town from Turkish-backed forces in a flare-up of violence Tuesday as US President Donald Trump sent his vice president and top diplomat to Ankara to demand a ceasefire.Russia, already the key foreign power in Syria, stepped into the void caused by Trump's withdrawal of US troops by deploying patrols to prevent clashes between Syrian and Turkish forces.

Putin's visit to Abu Dhabi comes a day after a trip to UAE ally Riyadh

Mourners attend the funeral of Kurdish fighters killed in the battle against Turkey

IMF growth forecasts by region and selected countries

IMF growth forecasts by region and selected countries

Hundreds of people including Russian and US astronauts and top officials bid farewell Tuesday to Alexei Leonov, a legendary Soviet cosmonaut who was the first man to perform a spacewalk.Thomas Stafford, an 89-year-old retired NASA astronaut, Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to travel into space, and Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu were among those gathered outside Moscow to pay their last respects to the Soviet space icon.

A Deepfake video has been made by morphing a clipping of Zuckerberg’s 2017 video address on Russian election propaganda on Facebook.

Putin's visit to Abu Dhabi comes a day after a trip to UAE ally Riyadh

Navalny and his allies organised protests after opposition politicians were barred from standing in the Moscow parliament election in September

The company owned by Asia's richest man Mukesh Ambani was forced to cap crude imports from Venezuela in March

The United States slapped sanctions on Turkey Monday as it demanded an end to the deadly incursion against Syrian Kurdish fighters, accusing its NATO partner of putting civilians at risk and allowing the release of Islamic State extremists.The actions came hours after Syrian regime troops returned for the first time in years to northeastern parts of the country, invited by Kurdish fighters desperate for protection as the United States pulls out.

An asteroid rapidly moving towards Earth has been detected by NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS.) Based on the size of the approaching asteroid, there’s a chance it might explode in the air if it ends up hitting Earth.

Hotfoot from success in Shanghai Daniil Medvedev arrives back in Moscow

Turkish soldiers and Turkey-backed Syrian fighters gather on the northern outskirts of the Syrian city of Manbij

US President Donald Trump has authorized sanctions and imposed steel tariffs against Turkey

Trump says he's good with Russia moving in to fill the void left by the U.S. troop pullout in northern Syria.

Both parties in Congress might come together to sanction Turkey for its offensive against Kurdish groups in northern Syria.

Yet another front opened in Syria's war when Turkey launched an assault last week targeting Kurdish forces