A Palestinian was killed by Israeli fire in fresh protests on the Gaza border Monday, the health ministry in the enclave said. Mohammad abu Abada, 27, was shot in the chest in protests along the border near Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, a health ministry spokesman told AFP. An...

Seven people were shot and wounded early Monday during a Halloween party at a Southern California nightclub, police said. The shooting was reported at a nightclub called Sevilla in the city of Riverside, a police statement said. The nightclub had promoted a weekend of Halloween-themed...

Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, whose self-styled Libyan National Army dominates the country's east, was in Rome Monday for talks ahead of next month's Sicily conference on the conflict-hit North African nation. Italy is trying to convince Haftar to support a crisis resolution plan...

Syria's National Museum of Damascus opened its rich trove of antiquities to visitors again on Sunday, seven years after war forced it to close and months after the government recaptured all rebel areas near the capital. Only part of the museum, and its collection drawn from the...