Syrian regime aerial bombardment of rebel-held town of Harasta northeast of Damascus left at least 12 people dead, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said on Wednesday. The attacks on Harasta, in the Eastern Ghouta region, killed members of the town's council, civil defense, and police...

Gunmen fired on police outside an Istanbul palace and a bomb killed eight soldiers in the southeast on Wednesday, heightening a sense of crisis as Turkey's leaders struggled to form a new government. The Istanbul governor's office said two members of a "terrorist group" armed with hand...

 US, allies target ISIS with 26 airstrikes in Syria, Iraq The United States and its allies launched 26 airstrikes Tuesday against ISIS militants in Syria and Iraq, according to the Combined Joint Task Force leading the air operations. In Iraq, 18 airstrikes targeted the militant...

A Tunisian policeman was shot dead Wednesday by two assailants on a motorbike in the coastal resort of Sousse where a jihadi gunman killed 38 tourists in June, a senior security official said. "Unknown assailants fired on three policemen on a road. One of them was hit and died in hospital,"...