Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is presenting the White House with a plan to "rapidly defeat" ISIS, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday. The strategy includes significant elements of the approach President Donald Trump inherited, while potentially deepening U.S. military involvement in Syria. Navy...

The UN Security Council will vote Tuesday on a draft resolution that would impose sanctions on Syria for the use of chemical weapons, diplomats said. Russia has vowed to use its veto to block the measure, which would be the seventh time that Moscow has resorted to its veto power to shield...

The Kuwaiti government could pay up to $60,000 to President Donald Trump's hotel in Washington for a party it held on Wednesday in an early test of Trump's promise to turn over profits from such events to the U.S. Treasury. The Kuwait Embassy hosted an event to mark their National Day....

Israeli forces were set Monday to evacuate and demolish nine settler homes built on private Palestinian land, after the supreme court rejected a last-minute request to only seal the structures. The same court had ordered the homes in the Ofra settlement be demolished by March 5. Their...