At least 20 Yemeni civilians were killed and many others were wounded when a coalition air strike hit a village in the south, officials from the armed Houthi movement and the government said on Wednesday. The U.N. said the victims of Tuesday's bombing, which hit al-Atera village in Taiz...

Iraq's prime minister has acknowledged that human rights violations were committed during the battle to retake the city of Mosul from Daesh (ISIS), but says they were "individual acts." Haider al-Abadi told reporters during a press conference Tuesday that those behind such acts were either...

U.S. President Donald Trump will nominate Jon Huntsman, an envoy to China under former Democratic President Barack Obama, as U.S. ambassador to Russia, the White House said on Tuesday. The job, all the more high-profile because of allegations that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential...

France's head of the armed forces Pierre de Villiers has resigned, a statement from his office said, days after a public dispute with President Emmanuel Macron over proposed defense budget cuts. In the statement, de Villiers said he had sought to maintain a French defense force able to do an...