Air strikes hit rebel-held districts east of Damascus Thursday for the first time in weeks after shells landed in parts of the capital controlled by the Syrian government, a Reuters witness and a war monitor said. Fighting and bombardment around Damascus have eased significantly since...

An American university student, who was detained for 17 months in North Korea and had fallen into a coma during that time, has a "severe" neurological injury, a hospital official said on Thursday. Otto Warmbier, 22, is stable and receiving treatment at the University of Cincinnati Medical...

The U.S. State Department sanctioned on Thursday three ISIS members, including whom it said was a leading coordinator of the Nov. 2015 Paris attacks and the March 2016 attacks in Brussels. Mohammed Al Binali, who the State Department said left Bahrain in 2014 to join ISIS and has appeared in...

A U.N. humanitarian aid adviser for Syria says trucks are being prepared to ship polio vaccine into ISIS-held areas of Deir al-Zor governorate following confirmation of a "very dangerous" outbreak of the virus. Jan Egeland made the comments to reporters Thursday in the wake of the...