(Vox)- Israel has spent years trying to avoid getting sucked into the vicious civil war raging in neighboring Syria. It’s now wading into the conflict in a way you wouldn’t expect. On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he has ordered his government to “find ways” to...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that the Daesh-held city of Al-Bab in northern Syria was completely besieged by the Turkish army and the Free Syrian Army (FSA). In a meeting with Albanian President Bujar Nishani in the presidential complex Wednesday, Erdogan said he has just...

Hotels in Las Vegas and Washington owned by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday they have entered into collective bargaining agreements with more than 500 workers, who will drop claims that the hotels violated federal labor law. The four-year contracts effective Jan. 1 will...

A German regional minister Wednesday accused Tunisia of delaying for months the extradition of a man now wanted over the Berlin market attack, saying required papers had only just arrived, two days after the carnage. The asylum request launched by the man hunted by police, identified as Anis...

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere confirmed Wednesday that authorities have identified a new suspect in the deadly truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin. "There is a new suspect we are searching for – he is a suspect but not necessarily the assailant," he told reporters....

Jordanian security forces have arrested a man suspected of funding an attack by ISIS that killed 10 people including a Canadian tourist, a security source said Wednesday. The suspect was detained in a raid on a house in Karak province Tuesday by police looking for the perpetrators behind...

Seven-year-old Bana al-Abed, whose Twitter account gave a tragic description of the bombing of Aleppo in Syria, on Wednesday met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at his palace in Ankara. Erdogan received Bana and her family at his palace, the state-run Anadolu agency said,...

Three Turkish soldiers were killed in clashes near the ISIS-controlled town of al-Bab in northern Syria, to which Turkey-backed rebels are currently laying siege, Turkey's military said on Wednesday. Around 20 Turkish soldiers have been killed in the course of the "Euphrates Shield"...

Five people were killed in a plane crash in Puerto Carreno, western Colombia early Wednesday. Colombia’s Civil Aviation Institution said a Boeing 727-200 cargo plane crashed three minutes after it took off from Puerto Carreno, close to the Venezuelan border, en route to the Colombian capital...

A massive explosion decimated a fireworks market outside the Mexican capital,  leaving it a charred wasteland and killing at least 31 people with dozens more injured. Television images showed a flurry of pyrotechnics exploding on Tuesday into the early afternoon sky as a giant plume of...

Police in Bahrain are clashing with residents of a besieged town that is home to a Shiite cleric. The cause for the confrontation on Wednesday in Diraz wasn't immediately clear. Residents of the town and activists say that riot police first massed outside, then entered the town. They...

China's smoggiest city closed schools Wednesday, as the country suffered through its sixth day under an oppressive haze, provoking public anger about the slow response to the threat to children's health. Since Friday, a choking miasma has covered a large swathe of northeastern China, leaving...

German police on Wednesday intensified a manhunt for the driver of a truck, who killed 12 people when he mowed into a Berlin Christmas market, and said they were following a number of good leads. After releasing a Pakistani asylum-seeker arrested near the scene, authorities warned that the...

An international watchdog says ISIS militants in Mosul are deliberately targeting civilians who refuse to join them as they retreat ahead of advancing Iraqi forces. Human Rights Watch also says that Mosul civilians are increasingly being caught in the crossfire, and that at least 19 have...

Turkey-backed Syrian rebel forces besieging ISIS-controlled al-Bab have gained full control of the highway linking the town to Aleppo with intense ground and air fire support, the Turkish military said on Wednesday. In its daily round-up of the near four-month-old "Euphrates Shield"...

(The Guardian)- At least 60 people have been injured after an explosion ripped through Mexico’s best-known fireworks market on the northern outskirts of the capital. Luís Felipe Puente, head of national emergency services, said the number of injuries could rise. Images broadcast by...

Russia, Iran and Turkey said they were ready to help broker a Syrian peace deal after the three countries held talks in Moscow on Tuesday and adopted a declaration which set out the principles any agreement should adhere to. The countries made the announcement after Russian Foreign Minister...

Twin bombings near the headquarters of an Iranian Kurdish opposition party killed seven people Tuesday, a rare attack in Iraq's relatively secure autonomous Kurdish region, a senior security official said. The bombings hit the town of Koysinjaq about 10:00 pm (1900 GMT), killing five members...

Two-time Wimbledon tennis champion Petra Kvitova underwent nearly four hours of surgery on her playing hand on Tuesday after she was stabbed by a knife-wielding intruder in her home in the Czech Republic. Early indications showed the Czech world number 11 could well make a recovery and...

Sixteen Daesh positions were hit by Turkish military aircraft in northern Syria as part of Operation Euphrates Shield, the Turkish military said on Tuesday. In a statement, the Turkish General Staff said the land and air operation was carried in the Al-Bab area. Fighter jets destroyed 16...