Unidentified armed gunmen fired at several police patrols in drive-by shootings in the southern Jordanian city of Karak with reports of several casualties, security sources said. They said the attackers were being pursued in an ancient castle in the mountainous city where some of the...

   Several buses en route to evacuate ill and injured people from the besieged Syrian villages of al-Foua and Kefraya were attacked and burned on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Syrian state television said. Some buses, as well as Red Crescent vehicles, reached...

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg Sunday defended the alliance's decision to refrain from stepping into the war in Syria, saying doing so would only make matters worse. All 28 NATO members belong to the US-led coalition battling ISIS but they are not directly involved in the Syrian conflict....

(CNN)- According to the UN, more than 400,000 people have died in Syria's civil war. Thousands of these victims have included women and children caught in the crossfire In the most recent horrific scenes, children were said to have been burned alive as the Syrian government...