Children born to Yazidi women as a result of rape by Daesh (ISIS) fighters will not be permitted to join the community in northern Iraq, the faith's Supreme Spiritual Council said. The Yazidi community once numbered around 500,000 members in the mountainous Sinjar region of northwest Iraq,...

There will be no enduring peace in Afghanistan unless the Taliban adapt to the changes that have swept the country since they were ousted in 2001, a U.S. diplomat said Sunday. Special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, who is leading U.S. efforts to forge a peace deal with the Taliban, made the...

he Trump administration on Friday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the father of Hoda Muthana, the American-born woman who fled Alabama in 2014 to marry an Islamic State fighter in Syria.  Hoda's father, Ahmed Ali Muthana – a former diplomat at the United Nations...

Shaken by five months of often-violent "yellow vest" protests, Emmanuel Macron will announce a package of measures that could include lower taxes and the abolition of France's elite Ecole Nationale d'Administration to quell the unrest. The street rebellion erupted over planned diesel tax...