Italian defense minister criticized the EU after up to 170 migrants are feared dead when two separate dinghies sank in the Mediterranean Sea.  "EU can no longer stand and watch," Elisabetta Trenta said in a Twitter post late Saturday.  One of the vessels capsized off Libya...

Syrian regime military air defenses thwarted an Israeli attack on Sunday, shooting down seven missiles targeting an airport in southeastern Damascus, Russia's National Defense Control Center was cited by RIA news agency as saying. The attack, launched by four Israeli F-16 jets, did not...

Police investigating a suspected car bombing in the Northern Irish city of Londonderry said Sunday they believe dissident republican group the New IRA to be responsible. The suspected bomb exploded at 8:10 pm (2010 GMT) on Saturday, as police were evacuating the area following a warning...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's warplanes carried out fresh airstrikes on northwestern Idlib province where Russia and Turkey agreed on a buffer zone in September, local reporter said Sunday. The strikes left two civilians dead and nine more wounded, mostly children, in the town of Beksariya....