Russia on Tuesday reported 320 fatalities caused by the novel coronavirus – the biggest single-day death toll since the beginning of the pandemic earlier this year. In total, the virus has already claimed 26,589 lives in the country and the situation has recently been worsening, the...

Clashes Tuesday in the Syrian desert between Russia-backed regime forces and Daesh (ISIS) militants have killed almost 30 fighters, a Britain-based war monitor said. Battles have been ongoing in Syria's vast Badia desert since the start of the month, with regime forces supported by Russian...

Israel is set to approve construction of Jewish settler homes in a flashpoint area of the West Bank city of Hebron for the first time since 2002, the anti-occupation group Peace Now said Tuesday. It condemned what it called an attempt to "squeeze in" the approvals before next week's US...

Nearly 6,000 Afghan civilians were killed or wounded in the first nine months of the year as heavy fighting between government forces and Taliban insurgents rages on despite efforts to find peace, the United Nations said Tuesday. From January to September, there were 5,939 civilian...