The United States provided intelligence to Iraq for airstrikes it conducted inside Syria in retaliation for recent bomb attacks in Baghdad, the Pentagon said Friday. Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abbadi said he had ordered the Iraqi air force to strike ISIS positions inside Syria. "Yes...

Armed groups traded fire with heavy weapons in the center of Tripoli, injuring at least nine people and paralyzing the Libyan capital, residents and the Red Crescent said Friday. "Our team ... rescued nine people injured in the indiscriminate firing," said the Libyan Red Crescent, which has...

ISIS Friday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack that killed dozens of people near Syria's Al-Bab just hours after rebels seized the town from the extremists. In a statement distributed online, the group said its suicide bomber "drove his car bomb into the middle of a gathering of...

Russia will use its veto to block a draft U.N. resolution imposing sanctions on Syria for the use of chemical weapons, the deputy ambassador said Friday. "I just explained our position very clearly to our partners. If it is tabled we will veto it," Vladimir Safronkov told reporters following...