The Trump administration's failure to keep senior adviser Jared Kushner's trip to Iraq secret isn't standard practice for top U.S. officials visiting warzones. Such trips are usually kept quiet, with the cooperation of journalists, until the officials arrive in order to ensure maximum security....

The United States does not believe that the Syrian people want President Bashar al-Assad as their leader any longer, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Monday. Haley was asked about U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's remarks in the Turkish capital Ankara on...

 U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, flew into Iraq on Monday with the top U.S. military officer to get a first-hand assessment of the battle against ISIS from U.S. commanders on the ground and to meet Iraqi officials. For Kushner, who has not been to Iraq before,...

An Egyptian human rights lawyer said Monday he had launched an appeal against a court ruling which backed Cairo's proposed transfer of two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's government announced last year a maritime demarcation accord with Saudi Arabia, which...