The Israeli army said it fired two Patriot missiles at a drone that "infiltrated" from war-ravaged neighboring Syria on Sunday. "Moments ago two Patriot air defence missiles were fired towards a drone which infiltrated Israeli airspace from Syria," the military said in a statement. The...

Pro-Syrian government forces reached the only main road into the rebel-held part of Aleppo on Sunday, further tightening their control around opposition areas of the main northern city. "It's completely cut," Zakaria Malahifji of the Aleppo-based rebel group Fastaqim, told Reuters. A second...

The U.N. is set to host a second day of talks on Libya Sunday with the aim of creating a "unified" army in a country wracked by internal divisions and an extremist threat. The organisation brokered a power-sharing deal last year to form a Government of National Accord (GNA), but the body is...

A "terrorist" gunman killed 84 people and wounded scores when he drove a heavy truck at high speed into a crowd that had watched Bastille Day fireworks in the French Riviera city of Nice late on Thursday, officials said. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said 80 people died and 18 were in a...