Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered weekend missile strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria, Revolutionary Guards said, contradicting a previous report that they were authorised by the country's security council. The Guards fired six mid-range surface to surface missiles...

President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he saw no legitimate successor to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and France no longer considered his departure a pre-condition to resolving the six-year-old conflict. He said Assad was an enemy of the Syrian people, but not of France and that...

The gunman who shot four people including a senior US lawmaker last week near Washington had kept a list of six members of Congress and was stockpiling ammunition, investigators said Wednesday. FBI officers also said James Hodgkinson, who was killed in a shootout with police during last...

The Taliban have released a new video showing an American and an Australian captive they abducted last August. This is the second video of the captives. The two men - an American identified as Kevin King and an Australian identified as Timothy Weekes - were abducted outside the American...