COLLEYVILLE, Texas (AP) — The rabbi of a Texas synagogue where a gunman took hostages during livestreamed services said Monday that he threw a chair at his captor before escaping with two others after an hourslong standoff, crediting past security training for getting himself and his...

The murder of Nail al-Naif, 19, is the latest episode in an alarming trend of violence against refugees in the country. Turkish police have detained eight suspects over the stabbing and killing of a young Syrian refugee in Istanbul on Monday. Nail al-Naif, 19, was sleeping in his...

A growing number of cases are being brought in Europe, and especially Germany, against loyalists of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime on accusations of state-sponsored torture. In the latest case, a court in the German city of Koblenz is set on Thursday to rule on the case of former...

 Iraqi military bases hosting U.S. troops in Iraq's western Anbar province and the capital of Baghdad were hit by Katyusha rockets Wednesday while in Syria, eight rounds of indirect fire landed inside a base with members of the U.S.-led coalition, the Iraqi and U.S. militaries said. No...