In our news wrap Sunday, Biden and Netanyahu spoke by phone amid signs of progress in Israel-Hamas ceasefire talks, efforts are underway for Syria to re-engage with other nations, South Korea’s suspended president will not attend the first hearing of his impeachment trial,

A standoff between rival government forces outside the presidential compound in South Korea is a startling development, even for observers used to the country’s famously rough and tumble politics

The uneasy truce between nuclear-armed North Korea and US-allied South Korea remains one of the most vexing security concerns for the world

Syria’s new government has strongly condemned Israel’s incursions into a U.N.-monitored buffer zone, urging the international community to pressure Israel into withdrawing

The black boxes of the passenger jetliner that crashed in South Korea last month killing 179 people stopped recording about four minutes before the crash, South Korean officials said Saturday.

North Korea launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile into the East Sea on Monday, South Korea's military said, as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Seoul amid a political crisis in the country.

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan has made an unannounced visit to Damascus, meeting with the leader of Syria’s de facto government.

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in northern Syria have showcased its nascent drone capabilities through counterstrikes using first-person view drones.

Prosecutor Karim Khan held discussions on Friday with Syrian authorities on how the war crimes tribunal could help in their efforts to prosecute crimes allegedly committed in the country, his office said.

However, in a Nikkei survey conducted in December, 64% of respondents expressed concern that the current political turmoil in South Korea could negatively affect bilateral relations. Regarding higher-level personal relationships that shape diplomatic relations,

It’s a cliche now that we live in an increasingly dangerous and unstable world. Financial markets anxiously calculate “geopolitical risk”. Europe’s biggest war since 1945 rages in Ukraine. Before our eyes Israel is organising a genocide.

Petroleum giant British Petroleum will cut 4,700 jobs this year in a cost cutting measure, the company announced Thursday. That amounts to about 5% of its total workforce.