The increased use of drones by Iran and its allies for surveillance and attacks across the Middle East is raising alarms in Washington. The United States believes that Iran-linked militia in Iraq have recently increased their surveillance of American troops and bases in the country by using...

U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Yukiya Amano plans to step down early, in March of next year, because of an unspecified illness that has visibly weakened him over the past year, diplomats who follow his agency's work said Wednesday. Amano, a 72-year-old Japanese diplomat, was reappointed in...

The battle to be Britain's next prime minister enters its final straight on Wednesday with both candidates hardening their positions on Brexit, putting the future government on a collision course with Brussels. Ex-London Mayor Boris Johnson, the favourite to replace Theresa May, and foreign...

A blast killed six regime army soldiers in Daraa province Wednesday in a rare, deadly attack in the defeated cradle of the eight-year uprising, a monitoring group said. "The explosive device was aimed at a convoy transporting members of the Fourth Division" in the southern province of...