A senior U.S. military official said on Wednesday attacks by Iranian-backed groups on bases hosting U.S. forces in Iraq were gathering pace and becoming more sophisticated, pushing all sides closer to an uncontrollable escalation. His warning came two days after four Katyusha rockets struck...

Devastating bushfires that blanketed Australia’s largest city with hazardous smoke this week have heightened public anger and raised political pressure on the government to do more to battle climate change. While cooler weather eased fires and haze around Sydney on Wednesday, the previous...

The United Nations is “unable to independently corroborate” that missiles and drones used in attacks on Saudi oil facilities in September “are of Iranian origin,” Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council on Tuesday. The United States, European powers and Saudi...

Six migrants have died from exposure on the Greek-Turkish border in recent days, a Greek local coroner said Tuesday. Pavlos Pavlidis told reporters two women, believed to be of African origin, and six men aged between 18 and 30, were found dead between December 5 and December 8 in the Evros...