The United States and Russia on Sunday tabled a proposal to rebels in Aleppo that would offer safe passage from the city for fighters, their families and other civilians, three opposition officials with Aleppo rebel groups told Reuters. The rebel groups in Aleppo have yet to respond to the...

A bombing at Cairo's largest Coptic cathedral killed at least 25 people and wounded 49, many of them women and children attending Sunday mass, in the deadliest attack on Egypt's Christian minority in years. The attack comes as President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi fights battles on several fronts....

A Kurdish militant group Sunday claimed responsibility for twin attacks that ripped through the heart of Istanbul, killing 38 people, most of them police, a news agency reported. The claim was made by the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK), seen as an splinter group of the better-known...

Forty-eight Yemeni soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing claimed by ISIS in the southern port city of Aden, officials said Sunday in an updated casualty toll. "We have 48 dead and 29 wounded," all soldiers, Abdel Nasser al-Wali, health department chief for Aden, told AFP, revising an...

Turkish warplanes destroyed 27 ISIS targets and killed 12 militants in the latest operations in northern Syria, the Turkish army said Sunday. The jets hit shelters, vehicles mounted with guns, ammunition depots and other targets strikes in the al-Bab, Bzagah and Kabr al Mukri regions of...

The death toll from the bombing outside a soccer stadium in Istanbul has risen to 38 people, including 30 police officers, Turkey's interior minister said Sunday, adding that Kurdish militants were believed to be responsible. "According to the latest information we have received, 38 of our...

An explosion on Sunday near the Cairo's Coptic cathedral killed at least five people and injured 10, Egyptian security sources said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. On Friday, two roadside bombs - one in Cairo and one north of the capital - killed six policemen and...

Italian President Sergio Mattarella summoned Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni to the presidential palace Sunday, in a strong indication that the head of state has chosen him to try to form a new government. Caretaker Prime Minister Matteo Renzi resigned last week after losing a referendum on...

 President-elect Donald Trump has found an accomplished American executive in Rex Tillerson, but one whose longstanding support for free trade, international law and an expansive U.S. presence in the Middle East largely doesn't fit with what Trump has pitched to supporters. A native of...

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter has arrived in Baghdad to meet with American commanders and Iraqi leaders and to assess progress in the fight to retake the northern city of Mosul ISIS. The unannounced visit Sunday came as Iraqi security forces have been slowed in their nearly two-month-old...

Turkey declared a one-day morning Sunday after twin blasts ripped through the heart of Istanbul following a football match killing 29 people, mainly police, and wounding 166, the state-run Anadolu news agency said. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim also ordered flags to fly at half mast after a...

(The Daily Star)- A suspected car bomb outside a soccer stadium in central Istanbul wounded around 20 people on Saturday hours after the end of a match between two of Turkey's top teams, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said. Soylu, speaking in parliament during a budget hearing, said around...

The Turkish army and its allies on Saturday entered ISIS's bastion of Al-Bab in northern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. "They entered Al-Bab from the northwest after violent clashes with the militants as Turkish artillery bombarded the town," the...

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said an accord to end a 52-year civil war with Marxist rebels was a "ray of hope" for solving conflicts from Syria to South Sudan as he collected the Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday. In an acceptance speech that quoted an anti-war song by Bob Dylan, the...

Lionel Messi scored twice in the second half to lead Barcelona to a 3-0 win at Osasuna on Saturday, ending a run of three consecutive draws for the defending Spanish league champions. Messi unlocked the hosts' defense in the 59th minute by threading a pass between four defenders to meet...

Syrian's military and Russian warplanes bombarded rebel-held districts of Aleppo on Saturday as Damascus's allies said victory was near, but insurgents fought back and army advances halted after rapid gains during the week. The United States said it was meeting a Russian team in Geneva to...

ISIS will not be defeated on the battlefield alone but by teaching tolerance and creating economic opportunity, Germany's defense minister said Saturday. "We should complement the coalition against terror with a coalition for education," Ursula von der Leyen told a Gulf security conference....

Fresh air strikes pummeled the shrinking rebel enclave in Aleppo on Saturday ahead of parallel talks in France and Switzerland aimed at saving the Syrian city from "complete" destruction. Foreign ministers from the Western and Arab backers of Syria's beleaguered opposition -- including US...

France's popular former economy minister, Emmanuel Macron, gets his campaign for the French presidency into gear with a rally in Paris on Saturday which should mark him out as a dark horse in the race for the Elysee. The 38-year-old Macron, once a protege of President Francois Hollande, has...

Russia’s President arrives in Japan on Thursday for a two-day summit meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the premier’s hometown of Yamaguchi in western Japan. For Japan, anything less than a breakthrough in a long-running dispute over ownership of four islands north of Hokkaido, that...