The biggest earthquake in Ecuador in decades has killed 272 people -- but that toll will 'certainly' rise even further, the president said as overwhelmed rescuers struggled to pull survivors out of the destruction. The 7.8-magnitude quake struck the small, oil-producing South American...

The Syrian opposition's chief negotiator Sunday called for renewed attacks on government forces, despite the shaky truce deal between government troops and rebel fighters. Mohammed Alloush, a leading political figure in the Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam) rebel group, is in Geneva as the senior...

At least five Yemeni policemen were injured Sunday when they foiled a suicide car bomb attack on the airport in the southern city of Aden, police said. They said the policemen opened fire at a car that was traveling at high speed towards the airport. It exploded near the checkpoint wounding...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters took at least 11 villages from regime army and rebel factions in northern Aleppo province, activists said Saturday. Activist Omar al-Shamali told Zaman al-Wasl that Isis had taken villages of Tel Shaeer, Bragheed and Qasajek in the northern countryside...