KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces destroyed a theater in Mariupol where hundreds of people were sheltering Wednesday and rained fire on other cities, Ukrainian authorities said, even as the two sides projected optimism over efforts to negotiate an end to the fighting. The airstrike...

Three Iranians of the Revolutionary Guard Corps were killed in an ambush by the Islamic State militants in the Badia desert in central Syria, a military source told Zaman al-Wasl on Wednesday. The attack targeted a military point for IRGC in the Khirbat Tiyas badia, about 5 km from the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that the operation in Ukraine is unfolding “successfully, in strict accordance with pre-approved plans” and decried Western sanctions against Russia, describing them as “aggression and war with economic, political, information means.”...

Two sites have been located, believed to hold thousands of bodies of Syrians killed in detention centers administered by Bashar al-Assad’s government during the civil war. BERLIN — By day, the workers used heavy machinery to dig pits and trenches. After dark, the corpses arrived,...