Spain has registered 27,118 deaths from the coronavirus, the Health Ministry said Wednesday, just one more than the previous day, but countrywide mortality data suggest the actual toll could be much higher. The ministry said 39 deaths were reported over the last seven days, while a total of...

The Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem will reopen Sunday after a two-month closure due to the novel coronavirus, a senior official said Wednesday. "All the doors of the Al-Aqsa mosque (compound) will be opened at dawn on Sunday," Omar al-Kiswani, the mosque's director, told AFP....

The U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan is considerably ahead of schedule, an official told AFP Wednesday, as President Donald Trump reiterated calls for the Pentagon to bring troops home. The developments came as questions loomed over the next phase of Afghanistan's long war, with...

Six militants were killed Wednesday in an explosion that hit their arms depot in northwest Syria while Russian warplanes flew overhead, a war monitoring group said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights did not say if Russia was behind the blast that killed the non-Syrian...