French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Tuesday he hoped Syrian truce negotiations in Kazakhstan would be successful and lead to a resumption of peace efforts in Geneva. Speaking at news conference on a visit to Saudi Arabia, he added that the new U.S. administration of President...

 Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov on Tuesday confirmed that troops from the mainly Muslim Caucasus region were serving as Russian military police in the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo. Kadyrov wrote on Instagram that MP Adam Delimkhanov and Chechnya's chief mufti, Salakho-Khadzhi...

Jordan's King Abdullah will visit Moscow on Jan. 25 and discuss steps to combat terrorism in the Middle East and North Africa with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said Tuesday. The two leaders also plan to talk about economic cooperation, the Kremlin said in a statement....

Thousands of Iraqi children are heading back to school in east Mosul after weeks of fighting and more than two years of extremist rule, the U.N. children's fund UNICEF said Tuesday. Iraqi forces launched a massive operation to recapture Mosul from ISIS 100 days ago and have ousted the...