The Palestinian women's football team saw a crushing defeat in their first match in Asian Cup qualifiers -- a 6-0 loss to Thailand -- but for captain Claudie Salameh, the score means little. "Playing football for girls in Palestine is an enormous challenge," she said after the match. "We...

More than 300,000 people have fled Mosul since the start of the U.S.-backed campaign to dislodge ISIS from the northern Iraqi city in October, the United Nations said Tuesday. The United Nations' International Organisation for Migration estimates the number of people currently displaced to...

 Turkish security forces have detained 18 people attempting to illegally cross to Turkey from its Syrian border, including a Chechen man suspected of planning an attack, the military said Tuesday. The security forces found 1.5 kg (3.3 pounds) of explosives and two grenades in the...

The Trump administration's failure to keep senior adviser Jared Kushner's trip to Iraq secret isn't standard practice for top U.S. officials visiting warzones. Such trips are usually kept quiet, with the cooperation of journalists, until the officials arrive in order to ensure maximum security....