Air raids have pounded areas in Syria's last rebel-held province of Idlib, killing at least 14 civilians and raising further concerns that an all-out regime offensive is only a matter of time. The strikes on Tuesday came as the United Nations urged Russia, key Bashar al-Assad...

Ninety elephant carcasses have been discovered in Botswana with their tusks hacked off, a charity said Tuesday, in what is believed to be one of Africa’s worst mass poaching sprees. Most of the animals killed were large bulls carrying heavy tusks, Elephants Without Borders said. The grim...

Syria's Kurdish-led northeast will not be given special treatment and will be dealt with in the same way as other parts of Syria, a regime minister said on Tuesday. "We cannot give any Syrian province something which differentiates it from other provinces or ethnicities, or (allow it)...

Syrian state media and an independent monitoring group are reporting an Israeli air raid targeting regime-held areas in the center and west of the country. Syria's SANA news agency says Israeli jets flying at high altitude above Lebanon fired several missiles on the area of Wadi Ayoun...