(The New York Times)-  As the sun set, children in dirty clothes and battered shoes herded sheep past the towering stone walls of a Byzantine settlement abandoned more than 1,000 years ago, leading them into an ancient cave nearby where the animals would spend the night....

The Russian military said Monday that its airstrike killed about 200 militants in eastern Syria. Rear Adm. Alexander Karpov, the head of the Russian military's Reconciliation Center in Syria, said Russian warplanes hit two militant hideouts northeast of Palmyra. Karpov said in a...

The head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard on Monday issued a warning to Israel, saying its "happiness" will be "very short-lived", state television reported. General Hossein Salami was speaking at the funeral of Brig. Gen. Mohammad Hosseinzadeh Hejazi in Tehran. On Sunday, the...

NEW DELHI (AP) — New Delhi imposed a weeklong lockdown Monday night to prevent the collapse of the Indian capital's health system, which authorities said had been pushed to its limit amid an explosive surge in coronavirus cases. In scenes familiar from surges elsewhere, ambulances...