A suicide bomber killed at least 16 people on Wednesday in an attack on Kurdish security forces in northeastern Syria claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the blast in the city of Qamishli killed 10 members of...

Syrian government forces recaptured four northwestern villages Tuesday as they pounded the area with airstrikes in a counter-attack on insurgents threatening strongholds of President Bashar Assad, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Government warplanes by Tuesday...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday he was cancelling the positions of advisers hired as contractors in ministries and limiting the number of advisers for himself, the president, and the parliamentary speaker to five each. It was not immediately clear how many positions...

Jets from a Saudi-led coalition targeted rebel Houthi positions in Yemen's Red Sea port of Hodeida early on Tuesday, port officials said, destroying cranes and warehouses at a main import hub for critical aid supplies to the country's north. There were also clashes further south...