Syrian regime forces have pulled out of a major air base in northwestern Syria, state television said on Wednesday, after a two-year siege by Islamist-led insurgents, increasing pressure on government-held coastal areas north of Damascus, Reuters said. A group monitoring the war...

Several hundred migrants broke through police lines at Hungary's main border crossing with Serbia Tuesday, forcing police to use pepper spray on one occasion to move a group off a main road. Some 300 migrants, part of a group of 1,500 people waiting for hours at the collection point, bolted...

Indications of increased Russian involvement in Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad are prompting a reassessment in Israel about how to handle fall-out from the conflict without risking a clash with Moscow. Since the Syrian civil war began in 2011, Israel has occasionally fired...

A Saudi-led alliance killed at least 20 Indian nationals in air strikes on fuel smugglers at a Yemeni port on Tuesday, fishermen said, and more foreign troops were reported to be arriving to intensify the campaign against Houthi forces. The Houthi-run state news agency Saba also said...