All civilians must be allowed out of east Aleppo and Syria's war must stop immediately to prevent the city's suffering being repeated elsewhere, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said in a statement Saturday. "There is grave risk now that such displacement and suffering will...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has harshly criticized U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May's recent comments about Iran posing a threat to the region. In remarks published on his website Saturday, Khamenei called the U.K "a source of evil and misery for the peoples of the region"...

Gunmen shot dead five female airport workers and their driver in southern Afghanistan Saturday, underlining the threat to employed women in the country. The women were in a van driving to the airport in the southern Kandahar province when at least three gunmen on motorcycles opened fire at...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said Friday his administration would build "safe zones" to try to help civilians trapped in Syria's bloody conflict, an idea that President Barack Obama said would be too hard to enforce. Trump and Obama spoke separately of the conflict after efforts to...