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   The firm agreed to a $777.8m (£687.2m) penalty for payments it made to keep a factory running in Syria after war broke out in 2011. Prosecutors said it marked the first time a company had pleaded guilty in the US to aiding terrorists. Lafarge said it "deeply regretted" the events and "accepted responsibility for the individual executives involved". The cement manufacturer, which was bought by Switzerland's Holcim in 2015, said their behaviour had been in "flagrant violation" of Lafarge's code of conduct. The firm opened its plant in Jalabiya near the Turkish border in 2010 following a $680m investment. Lafarge eventually evacuated the plant in September 2014, when Islamic State took control of the town and the factory. But before its departure, the deals helped the company do $70.3m in sales, prosecutors said. Lafarge had previously admitted bribes were paid after an internal investigation. But US Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said on Tue...

  Like most parts of the last decade, violence in Syria sees no end with the latest target being a town in the Northern part of Syria. A town in this part of the war-torn country has become the battleground of Turkish backed groups and US backed forces. There are fears of large scale Turkish evasion in the area resulting in an increase in violence in the region. Activities from the rebel groups and especially those backed by Turkey have seen a rise in the town of Ain Issa as the Ankara funded Syrian militias are attacking US backed democratic forces. This has resulted in people living in the area to displace and find a roof somewhere else in the country as they cannot even choose neighboring sites because fights had already damaged these areas. The town has been in control of the Kurdish population led by SDF, which is also backed by the United States in its fight against the Islamic States capturing of major towns in the country. Russia, however, is against this as...