Russia accused the West on Monday of “whipping up tensions” over Ukraine and said the U.S. had brought “pure Nazis” to power in Kyiv as the U.N. Security Council held a stormy and bellicose debate on Moscow's troop buildup near its southern neighbor. U.S. Ambassador Linda...

Jawdat Said, a non-violent Syrian Islamic thinker and author who opposed the fanaticism of some of the Muslim Brotherhood’s ideologues, died in exile in Istanbul on Sunday. He was 90. His death leaves a centrist gap in a fragmented Syria, with the country divided between the...

Iraqi airstrikes killed nine suspected Islamic State fighters, including four Lebanese, in retaliation for an IS attack on Iraqi army barracks earlier this month, officials said Sunday. IS gunmen in Iraq broke into a barracks in the mountainous al-Azim district outside the town of Baqouba on...

CAIRO (AP) — Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Sudan's capital and other cities across the country Sunday for the latest in a months-long string of demonstrations denouncing an October military coup that plunged the country into turmoil. At least one person was killed when...