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The advances have forced thousands of civilians to flee deeper into the rebel-held territory, where some 400,000 people live, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and a resident said on Sunday.

Umar Haque, 25, showed the children beheading videos and other violent militant propaganda, forced them to re-enact deadly attacks on the British capital and made them role-play attacking police officers.

"It is certainly concerning to see your government, to see your country, put together that kind of video that shows the Russian Government attacking the US," State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert told reporters at a separate news conference.

The attack came two days after President Ashraf Ghani offered to start peace talks with the Taliban and just over a month after an explosives-packed ambulance was detonated in the city centre, killing around 100 people.

Former Small Business Administration chief Maria Contreras-Sweet plans to launch a new company, save about 150 jobs, protect the small companies that are owed money, and create a victims' compensation fund that will supplement existing insurance coverage...

Dubbed the "Noah's Ark" of food crops, the Global Seed Vault is buried inside a former coal mine on Svalbard, a remote Arctic island in a Norwegian archipelago around 1,000 kilometres (650 miles) from the North Pole.

Pentagon's Chief Spokesperson Dana White made the comment in reply to the Taliban's call for direct talks to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Afghanistan.

In its report, the Trump administration said the ability of any country to self-declare "developing country" status to avail itself of flexibilities under the WTO agreements ultimately undermines the predictability of the WTO rules.

The investigation relates to three graphic images of Islamic State executions France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen posted on Twitter in December 2015, including the beheading of American journalist James Foley.

China has invested billions of dollars in its One Belt One Road initiative of which the CPEC and Gwadar port are its investments in Pakistan. However, over past few weeks the CPEC project has been garnering lots of negative publicity for the resistance, s...

The kingdom, the world's only country where women cannot get behind the wheel, then tackled the male bastion of soccer, letting women into stadiums to watch matches for the first time in January.

President Donald Trump has suggested arming teachers, as well as reopening mental hospitals, as a way of combating school violence. Trump is scheduled to meet with lawmakers from both parties at the White House later on Wednesday to discuss proposals.

Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged in October last year to turn China's military into a world-class fighting force by 2050 and has made new technology development a key policy plank, investing in stealth fighters, aircraft carriers and missiles.

Although most security assistance for Pakistan is currently suspended, since 2002 Pakistan has been among the largest recipients of US provided Foreign Military Financing (FMF) and International Military Education and Training (IMET), the General Joseph V...

Relations between the allies plummeted again last week when Washington persuaded member states of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to put Pakistan back on the watchlist of nations with inadequate terrorist financing or money laundering controls.

Wirathu, a prominent face of Myanmar's Buddhist ultra-nationalist movement, had amassed hundreds of thousands of followers on the network, using it as a platform to attack Muslims, singling out the stateless Rohingya minority.