French prosecutors have issued international arrest warrants for three senior Syrian intelligence and government officials, including security chief Ali Mamlouk, for alleged collusion in war crimes, legal sources said Monday. Mamlouk, one of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's most...

Iran greeted the reimposition of U.S. sanctions on Monday with air defense drills and an acknowledgement from President Hassan Rouhani the nation faces a "war situation," raising Mideast tensions as America's maximalist approach to the Islamic Republic takes hold. The sanctions end all...

President Donald Trump’s recent assertion that U.S. troops should respond to rock-throwing migrants — a hypothetical scenario — as if they were armed has sparked a debate about the appropriate use of force. Nigerian troops swiftly used Trump’s comments about the migrants as...

Jordan said Sunday Israel had asked for consultations on a special land deal agreed in their peace treaty that the Jordanian government wants to end. Under the peace treaty, two border areas were recognized to be under Jordanian sovereignty but gave Israel special provisions to use the...