(Daily Mail)- Al-Qaeda has confirmed their second-in-command Abu Khayr al-Masri was killed by a US drone strike.  The attack in Idlib, north west Syria last week, is believed to have been carried out using a new type of munition using a far lower explosive yield to reduce civilian...

Syrian government negotiator Bashar al-Ja'afari accused the Saudi-backed opposition on Thursday of holding peace talks hostage because of their reported refusal to unify under one opposition delegation and include terrorism on agenda. "We heard that... the Riyadh platform refused the...

Russia is hosting the head of Libya's U.N.-backed government, part of efforts to expand its clout in the fractured country. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met Thursday with Faez Sarraj, the prime minister of the unity government in Tripoli. Lavrov said that Russia, a "good and old...

An Israeli soldier convicted of shooting dead a wounded Palestinian assailant will not go to prison until after his appeal, a military court ruled Thursday. Elor Azaria was sentenced to 18 months in jail by a military court on February 21 and was due to begin his sentence on Sunday, but an...