The U.N. children's agency warns that the children in Mosul are bearing the brunt of the intensified fight between U.S.-backed government forces and ISIS in the city's western half. In a statement issued Monday, the UNICEF Representative in Iraq, Peter Hawkins, says the agency is receiving...

The fifth round of Syrian peace talks in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana may begin next week, Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov said on Monday. "Russia informed us that they are going to invite guarantor countries to meet in Astana on June 12-13," Abdrakhmanov told reporters....

Russian President Vladimir Putin says claims about Russian involvement in U.S. elections are untrue, and says the United States actively interferes with elections in other countries. And he is dismissing as "a load of nonsense" the idea that Russia has damaging information on President...

The Syrian regime army and allied forces captured the last major town held by Islamic State in Aleppo province on Sunday, state media and a war monitoring group said. State-run news agency SANA said army units made strategic gains in the rural east of the province. The Syrian Observatory...