THE Pearl of Borneo. This is what tourists are calling Labuan, which is just two-and-a-half hours by flight from Kuala Lumpur. Situated off the coast of Sabah, it is known as a paradise for ...

Hundreds reported killed in violence in Syria’s coastal region, which is heavily populated by Alawites. A Syrian man walks past burnt out cars in Jableh town, south of Latakia, following a ...

But Tehran’s lackeys in Iraq are getting nervous. Iran-backed Iraqi militias attacked U.S. forces and Israeli targets regularly throughout 2024, killing three U.S. soldiers in a drone strike in March ...

SDF commander Mazloum Abdi (L) signed the deal alongside interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa (R) A Kurdish-led militia alliance which controls north-eastern Syria has signed a deal to integrate all ...

(The Center Square) - The Washington House has passed a bill restricting the presence of out-of-state militia within the state’s borders, a move proponents believe is necessary to retain state ...

The Syrian government signed an agreement to integrate a large U.S.-backed Kurdish-led militia into its military forces, a major step toward consolidating Damascus’s control over the country ...

The Assad connection has made Alawites the main target of anti-Assad militias since HTS seized control of Syria three months ago. Alawites, also known as Nusayris, split from Shia Islam in the ...

MAE SOT, Thailand -- On a recent morning, one side of the bridge connecting Mae Sot, a western Thai border town, with Myawaddy in Myanmar was jammed with traffic. Myanmar residents -- cut off from ...

In March 2021, Brunei’s National Unitization Secretariat and Petronas signed an agreement on the terms of the unitization of the GKGJE fields’ oil and gas discoveries in Borneo, an island that ...

BEIRUT — Syria’s Defense Ministry announced Monday the completion of a military operation against remnants of the former Assad regime on the Syrian coast, where fighting between pro-Assad militias and ...

The agreement marked a major victory for Damascus in its quest to unify the country, as violent unrest continues to grip Syria’s coastal region. By Christina Goldbaum and Euan Ward Christina ...

The militia is made up of mostly Kurdish fighters from the Kurdish Protection Units (YPG), linked to the PKK, a separatist group that Turkey, the EU and the US have designated as a terrorist ...