The army said Friday that its troops had killed up to 13 Boko Harm militants in raids on the group's "entry and escape points" near Nigeria's borders with Cameroon. In an email to media on Friday evening, army spokesman Chris Olukolade said the raids – which targeted "the terrorists'...

Twenty people, including 14 security troops, have been killed and 14 others injured in a series of roadside bomb blasts and firing in northwest and southwest Pakistan on Saturday, officials said. Eleven Para military troops were killed and 8 injured in two separate bomb blasts in...

  Amateur video appears to show the aftermath of a car bomb attack in Idlib as residents scramble to find the living and the dead in Syria. Deborah Lutterbeck reports

U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Larry Silverman will temporarily become the United States' point man on Syria with the departure of Robert Ford on Friday, a State Department spokeswoman said. Ford, who became U.S. ambassador to Syria in 2011 and is retiring, was instrumental...