Middle East

More and more Afghan civilians are being deliberately targeted by militant attacks and suicide blasts, new UN figures published Thursday…

From their outpost on Iraq’s westernmost edge, US 1st Lt. Kyle Hagerty and his troops watched civilians trickle into the…

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Saturday vowed to investigate an attack involving Russian citizens on American-allied forces in Syria…

An Iranian passenger plane with 66 people on board crashed in central Iran on Sunday during a flight from Tehran…

Israeli jets pounded the Gaza Strip on Saturday after four soldiers were injured in an explosion along the border fence…

Turkey on Saturday denied allegations that it had used poisonous gas during operations in the northwestern Afrin region of Syria,…

Britain, the United States and France want the United Nations Security Council to condemn Iran for failing to stop its…

US National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said on Saturday that, despite denials, public reports showed that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was…

A serial survivor of scandals, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be in trouble once more after police recommended…

A Pakistani court Saturday handed four death sentences to a man charged with raping and murdering a young girl, in…