Malala Yousafzai, the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, celebrated her 18th birthday in Lebanon on Sunday by opening a school for Syrian refugee girls and called on world leaders to invest in "books not bullets". Malala became a symbol of defiance after she was shot on a...

 Israel on Sunday released an Islamic Jihad leader, Khader Adnan, from jail following a deal last month in which he agreed to end a 56-day hunger strike, Islamic Jihad sources in the West Bank said. Adnan's strike had galvanized Palestinians behind a "battle of empty stomachs" against...

After more than two weeks of marathon negotiations, Iran and six world powers appeared close to a historic nuclear deal that would bring sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on Tehran's atomic program, diplomats said on Sunday. But U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry cautioned...

Fatah Army in the northern province of Idlib has captured a strategic hill near Jisr al-Shughour town on Sunday, a move that makes rebels on the track to overrun Bashar al-Assad's hometown in the coastal region. The alliance of Islamist groups, who has slowed its progress in the last few weeks,...