If reports that Russia is boosting its military presence in war-wracked Syria prove true, this would "complicate the picture and be a negative development," Italy's foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni said on Thursday. "I hope that the news in recent days on Russia's presence is less...

Tunisian opposition parties and independent figures have called for a demonstration Saturday against a controversial anti-corruption bill, defying a ban on public protests under a state of emergency. The protest on Tunis's Habib Bourguiba Avenue, a focal point of the country's 2011 revolution,...

ISIS militants have got their hands on Syrian cotton production, worrying manufacturers even though there appears little risk for now that ISIS-linked clothes could end up on the catwalk or in your closet. After seizing oil and grain fields to fund their offensive, ISIS militants have also...

Indications of increased Russian involvement in Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad are prompting a reassessment in Israel about how to handle fall-out from the conflict without risking a clash with Moscow. Since the Syrian civil war began in 2011, Israel has occasionally fired...