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President Barack Obama on Friday officially named former deputy defense secretary Ashton Carter as his pick to lead the U.S. military. Obama said Carter is “rightly regarded as one of our nation’s foremost national security leaders” during an...

The political leader of Hamas, Khalid Meshaal, has warned in a television interview that Israeli Premier Netanyahu is "playing with fire" and blamed him for being responsible for deaths of five Israelis in an attack on a West Jerusalem synagogue last month....

  BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's al Qaeda offshoot Nusra said on Friday it killed a captive Lebanese soldier in retaliation for the arrest by Lebanese authorities of women identified as wives of Islamist militants. The soldier was one of more than...