(Reuters) - A U.S. drone strike killed five militants in Pakistan's volatile northwest on Wednesday, security officials and residents said, as the country's security forces press ahead with an offensive in a Taliban stronghold near the Afghan border. Two missiles slammed...

(Reuters) - A Gaza ceasefire was holding on Wednesday and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, echoing Israel's position, linked a lifting of blockades of the devastated enclave to Hamas giving up its rocket arsenal. Israel withdrew ground forces from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday...

    (Zaman Alwasl)- Syrian rebels Tuesday attacked al-Nairab military airport north Aleppo, destroying a helicopter, Shahba Press News reported. Islamic Front, key rebel group in Aleppo, says it's the second helicopter has been destroyed in...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Air strikes by Syrian government forces in the eastern suburbs of the capital Damascus killed at least 64 people at the weekend, a monitoring group said on Tuesday. Bombardments, gun battles and executions regularly kill over 150 people a day in Syria's...