The United States has started distributing arms to Syrian Kurdish fighters battling to help retake the city of Raqqa from Islamic State, a U.S. official told Reuters on Tuesday, as the United States moved ahead with a plan despite concerns by ally Turkey. The official said distribution of...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security does not plan to announce an expansion of a ban on laptops in airline cabins this week after Secretary John Kelly spoke to European officials on Tuesday, a department spokesman said. The spokesman, David Lapan, confirmed that Kelly was speaking to...

Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed on Tuesday any suggestion that Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces were behind a chemical attack that killed scores of people in Idlib province in April. "According to our information, there is no proof that chemical weapons were used by Assad....

U.S.-backed fighters on Tuesday reached the northern entrance of the Syrian city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of ISIS, amid intense clashes and airstrikes on Raqqa's northern and eastern edges, opposition activists said. The latest push by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces brings...