LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — The humanitarian crisis in Ukraine deepened Monday as Russian forces intensified their shelling and food, water, heat and medicine grew increasingly scarce, in what the country condemned as a medieval-style siege by Moscow to batter it into submission. A third round of...

(Reuters) - Russia warned that oil prices could surge to $300 a barrel and it might close the main gas pipeline to Germany if the West halts oil imports over the invasion of Ukraine as peace talks on Monday made little progress. The incursion, the biggest attack on a European state since...

Gasoline prices are pushing even farther above $4 a gallon, the highest price that American motorists have faced since July 2008, as calls grow to ban imports of Russian oil. Prices at the pump were rising long before Russia invaded Ukraine and have spiraled faster since the start of the...

Five Syrian forces and allied militias were killed in Islamic State's landmines in the Syrian desert, amid a hike in the radical group's attack in the past 72 hours. Informed sources confirmed to Zaman al-Wasl that 3 pro-Iran militants were killed at Monday dawn, and two others were wounded,...