A group of Yazidi women and children reunited with their families in Iraq Saturday after five years of captivity at the hands of Daesh (ISIS), hugging and kissing relatives in emotional scenes that underscored their years-long ordeal and that of their devastated community. Elated...

United Nations investigators said on Thursday Israeli security forces may have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in killing 189 Palestinians and wounding more than 6,100 at weekly protests in Gaza last year. The independent panel said it had confidential information about those...

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talks in Qatar on ways to end the war in Afghanistan have held “extensive” discussions on how foreign troops could be withdrawn and on how to guarantee the country would not be used again by outside forces to attack other countries, the Taliban said in...