Chinese state media is rallying the public and posting old propaganda footage, but officials are also careful to leave room for talks with President Trump.

As Syria’s regime collapsed, the world’s eyes were on Bashar al-Assad’s getaway flight. Behind him, officials key to his brutal rule made a mass exodus, virtually undetected.

The result gives Sébastien Lecornu, France’s prime minister, a reprieve after weeks of political turmoil. But he still has to get a budget passed by the end of the year.

With the bodies of 10 people returned from Gaza, Israelis elated by the release of hostages began mourning those who did not make it home alive.

A video this week captured Hamas fighters in Gaza executing Palestinian rivals as the militant group tries to assert that it is still the dominant force in the territory after two years of war with Israel.

Analysts say they are unsure what the Trump administration hopes to get out of its gifts and concessions to Belarus’s autocratic leader.

Hamas has handed over the bodies of eight people, but says it is struggling to find the remains of others in Gaza after two years of war.

President Ahmed al-Shara is making his first trip to Moscow, which backed the regime his rebels overthrew. Both sides have reasons to put the past aside.

About 80,000 phones were stolen in the British capital last year. The police are finally discovering where many of them went.

A pivotal political leader who helped usher in multiparty democracy, he ran unsuccessfully for the presidency five times.