Veteran Venezuelan opposition leader Antonio Ledezma, under house arrest after his 2015 arrest for alleged coup plotting, escaped across the border to Colombia on Friday. Ledezma, the best-known detained opponent of leftist President Nicolas Maduro after Leopoldo Lopez, said he had gone...

Iraqi forces on Friday captured the border town of Rawa, the last remaining town under Islamic State control, signaling the collapse of the group’s self-proclaimed caliphate. Rawa’s capture marks the end of Islamic State’s era of territorial rule over a so-called caliphate that it...

France's Macron: 'I will welcome Hariri as Lebanese prime minister, he will then return to Beirut in days or weeks'

Egyptian officials say authorities will temporarily reopen the country's border crossing with the Gaza Strip for the first time since Hamas ceded control of its side of the crossings to the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority. The officials say the Rafah crossing will be...