( New York Times )- He was the only man I saw when we entered the nearly empty village in northern Iraq, which had just recently been liberated from the Islamic State. The first thing he did when he approached our car was ask my colleague for a light. That’s when I noticed the pack of cigarettes...

Afghan soldier Zabihullah was chatting with an army comrade at their military base in northern Afghanistan when gunfire interrupted their quiet Friday afternoon.     "I asked my friend what was happening, and he said, relax, it must be one of us."     It wasn't. It...

A local Islamic State leader was killed on Saturday during a dawn raid by the Lebanese army in which troops arrested 10 suspected militants who had entered a northeastern border town from Syria, the army said. No soldiers were reported wounded or killed in the operation in Arsal, which...

Moroccan and U.S. forces are among nearly 1,300 troops from across the world taking part in a major military exercise in southern Morocco, the American embassy and military officials said. Military personnel from Britain, France, Germany, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Spain and Tunisia are also...

Pushing carts loaded with bags, babies and the elderly, hundreds of people fled Mosul Saturday after Iraqi forces retook two more districts in the west of the city from ISIS. After walking for miles, families were taken by bus from a government checkpoint in the south of the city to camps...

Russian authorities said Saturday security forces had killed two armed militants who had been trained by ISIS and were planning a series of "terrorist crimes", Russian news agencies reported. The National Anti-Terror Committee said the two men had been killed in the Stavropol region of...

Two Saudis were among a mainly Qatari hunting party freed after a 16-month hostage ordeal in Iraq, Saudi media reported Saturday. The 26 hunters, initially believed to all be Qataris, were flown to Doha Friday after being handed over to Iraqi authorities. Jeddah-based newspaper Okaz...

Turkey's justice minister slammed the main opposition party Saturday for contesting the outcome of Sunday's referendum on expanding presidential powers and said there is no judicial path to reverse the ruling. In a series of tweets, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said all decisions on...

Pushing carts loaded with bags, babies and the elderly, hundreds of people fled Mosul Saturday after Iraqi forces retook another district in the west of the city from ISIS. After walking for miles, families were taken by bus from a government checkpoint in the south of the city to camps...

 Venezuela braced for new marches Saturday against President Nicolas Maduro, after the death toll climbed to 20 in three weeks of violence at protests demanding the leftist leader's ouster. The opposition called for protesters to march in silence to the Catholic Church's episcopal seats...

Denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula can still be achieved peacefully because of Washington's new engagement with China, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Saturday, despite growing fears North Korea could soon conduct a new nuclear test. South Korea is on heightened alert ahead of...

US supercarrier Carl Vinson will arrive in the Sea of Japan in days, Vice President Mike Pence said Saturday, on a visit to Australia aimed at mending fences following a testy first call between the countries' leaders. Pence sought to put to rest the surly telephone conversation between US...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov voiced "regret" in a phone call with his U.S. counterpart Friday at Washington's opposition to a Moscow-backed plan to investigate an alleged chemical attack in Syria. In the call with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson which "took place at U.S....

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Friday that Syria had dispersed its warplanes in recent days and that it retained chemical weapons, an issue he said would have to be taken up diplomatically. The United States launched dozens of missiles earlier this month against a Syrian air base...

The gutting of US-funded climate science would cripple research agendas worldwide and hamper the global fight against climate change, say scientists outside the United States, some of whom will take to the streets Saturday to make that point. US President Donald Trump has called for drastic...

Novak Djokovic was knocked out of the Monte Carlo Masters in the quarter-finals on Friday, losing 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 to Belgium's David Goffin. Goffin will play either nine-time champion Rafael Nadal or Argentina's Diego Schwartzman for a place in Sunday's final....

Russia has told the United States it regrets Washington's opposition to letting its inspectors take part in an investigation into a chemical weapons attack in Syria earlier this month, the foreign ministry said Friday. It said Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke by phone to U.S. Secretary...

 Israel's army said Friday it had targeted positions inside Syria in retaliation for mortar fire that struck the northern part of the occupied Golan Heights. "The Israeli army targeted the source of the fire," an army statement said without giving further details. An army...

Around 100 migrants have drowned in the Mediterranean according to shipwreck survivors, raising the death toll for the perilous crossing to Italy to over 1,000 victims in 2017, the U.N.'s refugee agency said Friday. "This latest tragedy pushes the number of people dead or missing in the...

 Prominent Kuwaiti opposition leader Mussallam al-Barrak was released from prison Friday after serving a two-year sentence for insulting the emir in public. Barrak, 61, walked out of Kuwait's central prison to a frenzied reception by hundreds of his relatives and supporters who broke...