Syrian regime forces were locked in clashes with jihadists and allied rebels in a key highway town in northwest Syria Thursday, a monitor said, despite Turkey warning pro-government fighters to back off. Ankara sent in reinforcements north of the town of Saraqeb overnight after Wednesday's...

A high-speed train derailed in northern Italy in the early hours of Thursday, killing its two drivers, injuring scores of people and disrupting traffic on the busy line between Milan and Bologna. The train skipped the tracks while traveling at an estimated 280 kph (175 mph), with the front...

A U.S. citizen has been kidnapped in Afghanistan’s eastern Khost province, according to media reports on Thursday. American current affairs magazine Newsweek reported that a 57-year old U.S. contractor was abducted last week in Khost, citing unnamed U.S. officials. The U.S. State...

Syria's Kurds Thursday handed over 35 Russian orphans linked to the Islamic State group to their home country in the latest such repatriation of parentless children, an AFP correspondent said. The boys and girls were handed over to a Russian delegation in the town of Qamishli, he said....