A Kuwaiti military plane entered Iraqi airspace, Baghdad said on Tuesday, allegedly causing fear among residents in the area. The military jet flew above Safwan in the southern governorate of Basra, local reports said. Kuwait is among the nations currently hosting military drills in the...

Britain, France and the United States on Tuesday presented a draft resolution to the UN Security Council condemning the suspected chemical attack in Syria and demanding a full investigation. The text, obtained by AFP, called on the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)...

Russia's defense ministry said on Wednesday that a poisonous gas contamination in the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun was the result of gas leaking from a rebel chemical weapons depot after it was hit by Syrian government air strikes. The United States has blamed the administration of Syrian...

The White House condemned what it called a "reprehensible" and "intolerable" chemical attack in Syria Tuesday and pinned the blame squarely on Bashar Assad's forces. White House spokesman Sean Spicer said an "extremely alarmed" President Donald Trump had been briefed extensively on the...

 France's foreign minister said on Tuesday a suspected chemical weapons attack by Syrian government forces was a way of testing the new U.S. administration and it was time Washington clarified its position on President Bashar Assad. "It's a test. That's why France repeats the messages,...

Britain Tuesday said it has allocated 1 billion pounds ($1.24 billion), including 160 million pounds of new money, to help Syrian refugees displaced by six years of civil war and countries that host them. International donors are expected to pledge billions more dollars in aid for Syria at a...

The Palestinian women's football team saw a crushing defeat in their first match in Asian Cup qualifiers -- a 6-0 loss to Thailand -- but for captain Claudie Salameh, the score means little. "Playing football for girls in Palestine is an enormous challenge," she said after the match. "We...

 British police said they had now charged 13 people Tuesday over a brutal attack on a teenage asylum seeker in south London which detectives said he was lucky to survive. The 17-year-old Kurdish Iranian boy, named by media as Reker Ahmed, was set upon by a group of up to 30 people...

Police in southern Spain Tuesday staged raids targeting assets of the family of Syrian leader Bashar Assad, a judicial source said. The raids, in the Puerto Banus marina area of the plush resort of Marbella, are the result of a corruption investigation launched in France against Assad's...

More than 300,000 people have fled Mosul since the start of the U.S.-backed campaign to dislodge ISIS from the northern Iraqi city in October, the United Nations said Tuesday. The United Nations' International Organisation for Migration estimates the number of people currently displaced to...

 Real Madrid are set to snatch highly-rated left-back Theo Hernandez from cross city rivals Atletico Madrid by paying the buyout clause in his contract, Spanish sports daily Marca reported Tuesday. French youth international Hernandez, 19, has impressed during a loan spell with Alaves...

The U.N. warned Tuesday the plight of millions of Syrian refugees was becoming "desperate," with aid funds running low as donors and humanitarian groups met in Brussels to discuss the next steps. The EU and the U.N. are co-chairing a two-day conference to follow up on a London meeting last...

 Turkish security forces have detained 18 people attempting to illegally cross to Turkey from its Syrian border, including a Chechen man suspected of planning an attack, the military said Tuesday. The security forces found 1.5 kg (3.3 pounds) of explosives and two grenades in the...

(Washington Times)- Stepping up the drive to clear out Islamic State’s last strongholds in Syria and Iraq, Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and increasingly influential adviser, arrived Monday with Joint Chiefs of Staff head Gen. Joseph Dunford for talks in Baghdad with top Iraqi...

The Trump administration's failure to keep senior adviser Jared Kushner's trip to Iraq secret isn't standard practice for top U.S. officials visiting warzones. Such trips are usually kept quiet, with the cooperation of journalists, until the officials arrive in order to ensure maximum security....

 French maritime authorities have rescued six Iranian migrants whose fishing boat was sinking in the English Channel as they sought to reach Britain. The overnight rescue effort took more than two hours because extremely thick fog complicated efforts to find the boat, the CROSS maritime...

Turkey is planning new offensives inside Syria against groups deemed terrorist organisations by Ankara, even after the completion of its six-month-long operation in the country’s north, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday. Turkey announced last week that it had completed the Euphrates...

The United States does not believe that the Syrian people want President Bashar al-Assad as their leader any longer, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Monday. Haley was asked about U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's remarks in the Turkish capital Ankara on...

The European Union and the U.N. host a two-day conference starting Tuesday on Syria's future, with Russian-backed President Bashar Assad as firmly in place as ever despite efforts to oust him. EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini has billed the gathering in Brussels as a follow-up to...

British Prime Minister Theresa May has begun a visit to Jordan where she is to announce plans to send more British military trainers to help the kingdom's air force in the fight against ISIS extremists. Jordan's royal court said Monday that May and Jordan's King Abdullah II toured a military...