Assad may win Syria's war, but he will preside over a broken country

(CNN)In the summer of 2015, President Bashar al-Assad was in trouble. His army -- fighting on multiple fronts amid desertion and exhaustion -- was losing ground. Islamist rebel groups were threatening to cut key routes connecting regime strongholds. And then an Iranian general went to Moscow

Dog bound for Kansas mistakenly shipped to Japan via United Airlines

(CNN)United Airlines wrongly shipped a Kansas-bound pet dog to Japan, the second embarrassment this week for the airline and a "nightmare" for the Swindle family -- who are moving from Oregon to Wichita with their beloved pet, a 10-year-old German shepherd named Irgo.

Haley slams Russia over spy poisoning in Britain

(CNN)US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said Wednesday the Trump administration "stands in absolute solidarity with Great Britain" following a nerve agent attack against a Russian double agent and his daughter in the English city of Salisbury last week.

Another Trump attorney involved in Stormy Daniels case

(CNN)New documents obtained by CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" on Wednesday suggest a deeper link than previously known between the Trump Organization and the company that Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, established in 2016 to pay off porn star Stormy Daniels in exchange for silence about her alleged affair with Trump.

Rot lurks in golden city as Putin’s election looms

Sergiev Posad, Russia — Under the shadow of a towering, red, high-rise block of apartments, Andrei Trofimov removes a black plastic covering from his car.

Dhaka waits for black box to be decoded

Bangladesh authorities are waiting for the black box of the crashed US-Bangla Airlines plane to be deciphered to come to a conclusion over the cause of the accident while the death toll from the crash at Kathmandu airport rose to 50 on Tuesday.

SC stays Khaleda’s bail until Sunday

The Appellate Division on Wednesday stayed till Sunday the bail granted to Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case

PM returns home from Singapore

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina returned home on Tuesday, cutting short her official visit to Singapore by a day, following Monday’s US-Bangla Airlines plane crash in Nepal.

Eight DB men closed over torturing journalist

Eight members of the Detective Branch of police have been closed to the district police lines over torturing a cameraperson of a private television channel in the city. Deputy Commissioner (South) of Barisal Metropolitan Police Golam Rauf said they also formed a probe committee to look into the incident

Fire at Shyambazar onion wholesale market

Fifteen shops were burnt in a fire that broke out at an onion wholesale market at Shyambazar in Sutrapur area of the capital on early Wednesday.