Israeli fighter jets conducted an airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip early Thursday, according to eyewitnesses. The airstrike reportedly hit a target belonging to the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, west of Khan Yunis. There were no casualties, the sources...

Taliban and American officials holding talks in Qatar on ways to end the war in Afghanistan have held “extensive” discussions on how foreign troops could be withdrawn and on how to guarantee the country would not be used again by outside forces to attack other countries, the Taliban said in...

In Iraq, medicine is a matter of life or death -- not just for patients, but for doctors facing threats by vengeful relatives and emigrating en masse. Shaymaa al-Kamali, a family physician in Baghdad, said her problems began when she barred a patient's father from staying in the hospital...

War-weary residents of the flashpoint Yemeni port city of Hodeida have little hope of peace even as the UN regains control of vital food aid warehouses on the front lines. The United Nations has since September been unable to reach the Red Sea Mills -- carrying grain estimated to feed 3.7...