Six Red Cross workers have been killed and two others are missing in northern Afghanistan, the international charity said Wednesday, underscoring the growing dangers faced by aid workers in the war-battered country. They were killed in the volatile province of Jowzjan, the charity added,...

Syria's justice ministry on Wednesday dismissed as "completely false" an Amnesty International report alleging up to 13,000 people were hanged over five years in a Syrian government prison. The ministry said the Amnesty report was "completely untrue and intended to harm Syria's reputation in...

Syrian government jets bombed a rebel-held district of Homs city on Wednesday killing several people, rescue workers and a monitoring group reported. The raids hit the al-Waer neighborhood, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Syrian Civil Defence, a rescue service...

 Syrian rebels and Turkish special forces have together made important progress in northern Syria in the fight against ISIS, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday. In a joint news conference with his Saudi counterpart in the Turkish capital of Ankara, Cavusoglu...