Human Rights Watch Thursday accused Iranian-trained Iraqi paramilitary units battling ISIS of demolishing hundreds of Sunni Arab houses near the city of Mosul, but a spokesman for the units blamed the militants for the damage. The New York-based rights group said the mainly Shi'ite Muslim...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that the whole world benefited from a strong European Union and that the bloc and his country needed to lead the international economy in challenging times. Trudeau told the European Parliament that the Union was an unprecedented model for...

Syrian President Bashar Assad lashed out at his French counterpart Thursday, accusing Francois Hollande of sponsoring terror in Syria and encouraging Western nations to reset their relations with his pariah government, after six years of civil war. The comments, which came in an interview...

The sculpted mud domes of the villages southeast of Aleppo are collapsing from war damage and neglect after years on the front line between Syria's army and Islamic State militants, their inhabitants long since gone. But in Aleppo's Jibreen shelter, home to refugees who have been unable or...