At least 28 civilians were killed and scores injured in Russian airstrikes in northern Syria’s Aleppo province on Wednesday.  Russian warplanes carried out three raids on residential areas in the opposition-held al-Sokkary district in Aleppo, Najib al-Ansari, a local civil defense...

PARIS French anti-terrorism police have launched an investigation after a car full of six gas cylinders was found in Paris, near Notre Dame Cathedral, over the weekend, French daily Le Figaro reported Wednesday. The car – with registration plates missing and its hazard lights flashing...

Almost 50 million children throughout the world are "uprooted," forcibly displaced from their home countries by war, violence or persecution, the United Nations children's program said Wednesday. "Indelible images of individual children -- Aylan Kurdi's small body washed up on a beach after...

(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's top religious authority accused Iran's leaders of not being Muslims, drawing a rebuke from Tehran in an unusually harsh exchange between the regional rivals over the running of the annual haj pilgrimage. The war of words on the eve of the mass pilgrimage will...