Bloomberg Pro-government forces pounded the rebel-held district of eastern Ghouta outside the Syrian capital Damascus, in a surge of violence that a war monitor said had killed at least 250 people since Sunday night. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was the highest 48-hour death toll in the Syria conflict since a 2013 chemical attack on eastern ...

Bloomberg US Vice President Mike Pence was willing to meet with Kim Jong Un’s envoys earlier this month during the Winter Olympics in South Korea, but the North Koreans backed out, the Trump administration said. “North Korea dangled a meeting in hopes of the vice president softening his message, which would have ceded the world stage for their propaganda during ...

Bloomberg Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called President Donald Trump’s decision to move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem a “dangerous” development in a speech before the United Nations, then walked out before US envoy Nikki Haley retorted that “we will not chase after you.” The encounter before the Security Council reflected the tensions in US-Palestinian relations since Trump’s declaration ...