Afghan security forces are battling Taliban insurgents blocking a main route into the northern city of Kunduz with improvised explosives, officials said Tuesday, as fears grew local residents could be forced to flee the city. Heavy fighting has been underway for days around Kunduz, a city...

( Chicago Tribune )- For many Americans, horrific images of children bloodied and battered by Syria's civil war have driven outrage and financial support. But for a number of Chicago-based physicians, the conflict in Syria and the oath they took to save lives have converged in their homeland....

For residents of besieged Douma, the daily struggle to survive involves not just avoiding the violence that has ravaged the Syrian town, but laboring to obtain scarce basic commodities. Facing a shortage of fuel to run generators and machinery due to the siege, former construction worker Abu...

Malaysia's most-wanted member of ISIS has been killed in Syria, police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said on Monday, citing intelligence information. Muhammad Wanndy Mohamed Jedi, 26, who was on a U.S. list of global militants, was the alleged mastermind behind a grenade attack on a Kuala Lumpur...