Two Palestinians stabbed an Israeli Thursday and were then shot by police, as diplomatic efforts continued to try to bring an end to a month-long spate of violence. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the attackers, whose identities were not immediately known, were seriously wounded....

Vladimir Putin used a rare visit to Moscow by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to talk up the Kremlin's potential to help broker a political settlement to the crisis as he tried to show the West Russia has become a major player in the Middle East. Assad flew to Moscow on...

Partly burned and still abandoned, the high-walled villas that once housed the U.S. consulate compound in the Libyan city of Benghazi now sit on a frontline of a nation at war with itself. Three years after militants killed U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other...

Twenty-four people face trial in Bahrain for trying to set up a branch of the Islamic State militant group and promoting the overthrow of the Gulf Arab state's monarchy, the public prosecutor's office said on Wednesday. Bahrain was swept by protests during the 2011 "Arab Spring"...