Syrian regime forces on Friday reached a vital border crossing with Jordan and raised the national flag for the first time in years, state media reported, reinstating sovereignty over a key region that potentially reopens the way for Syrian exports to Arab countries. State news agency...

Russian air strikes against rebels in southern Daraa province resumed Wednesday, residents and an activist group said, after a rebel said talks to restore regime rule there peacefully had failed. The air strikes targeted the towns of Tafas, northwest of the provincial capital Daraa, and...

France's military said a number of civilians had been killed in an attack in the northern Malian town of Gao and that it was assessing the state of a 30-strong French patrol that came under attack. Army spokesman Patrik Steiger said an explosion had happened near three French vehicles...

A suicide bomber targeted a convoy of Sikhs and Hindus on their way to meet Afghanistan's president in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Sunday, killing at least 19 people. Inamullah Miakhail, spokesman for the provincial hospital in Nangarhar, said that 17 out of 19 dead in the attack...