Elite Iraqi forces battled house by house in the Old City of Mosul Saturday, inching towards the mosque where ISIS proclaimed its "caliphate" in 2014, a spokesman said. Commanders said that progress in the densely populated warren of alleyways was slow but that government forces had made new...

Turkish leaders, soldiers and flag-waving spectators are commemorating a World War I campaign in which Ottoman armies held off an Allied expeditionary force, a bloody event that helps to underpin staunch nationalism in Turkey today. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Saturday attended a ceremony...

A Yemeni rebel missile was intercepted over Saudi Arabia late Friday, a Saudi-led coalition said, as the death toll from a rebel attack on a Yemeni army camp rose to 32. The rebels' Saba news agency said the missile was aimed at offices of Saudi oil giant Aramco in the town of Jizan. The...

Hundreds of South Koreans protested Saturday against the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system, a day after the visiting U.S. Secretary of State reiterated that its installation would go ahead. Rex Tillerson said in Seoul Friday that the United States and South Korea would "proceed...