Four regime forces were killed in two land-mine explosions planted by Daesh (ISIS) in northeastern Raqqa province, a local reporter said Thursday.   The explosion of two land mines rocked two military vehicles of the Russian-backed Fifth Corps in the Mount Bishri in Raqqa...

Attackers gunned down a policewoman on Thursday in eastern Afghanistan as she was headed to work, provincial officials said, the latest targeted killing in the war-torn country. Provincial police spokesman Fared Khan said the officer shot in the city of Jalalabad was wounded but later...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A popular Palestinian leader imprisoned by Israel has registered his own parliamentary list in May elections, his supporters said Wednesday, in a last-minute shakeup that could severely weaken President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party and help its militant Hamas...

The United Nations will urge international donors to pledge up to $10 billion on Tuesday to help Syrians fleeing a decade of civil war in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, saying that the need for humanitarian support has never been so great. In the fifth annual conference to keep...