More than 3,700 civilians have been killed in Syria since the U.S.-led Global Coalition against Daesh launched an anti-terror campaign in 2014, a U.K.-based human rights group said on Monday. In a report marking the fifth year of the U.S.-led campaign in Syria, the Syrian Human Rights...

Iran said Monday that a British-flagged oil tanker is "free" to leave more than two months after it was seized in the Gulf. "The legal process has finished and based on that the conditions for letting the oil tanker go free have been fulfilled and the oil tanker can move," government...

Egyptian security forces say police have killed 15 suspected militants in a shootout in the restive northern part of the Sinai Peninsula. They say the shootout took place Sunday when police raided the militants' hideout west of the Mediterranean city of al-Arish. Security...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced Monday the creation of a committee on Syria that will include government and opposition representatives to draft a post-war constitution. "I firmly believe that the launching of a Syrian-organized and Syrian-led Constitutional...