Two children, aged 10 and 12, were killed in a suspected U.S. airstrike targeting al-Qaeda in central Yemen, a provincial official said Tuesday. The children had been tending a herd of goats on a mountain outside the village of Yakla, in Baida province, when the strike hit Sunday, the...

 More than 2,000 fighters sent from Iran have been killed in Iraq and Syria, the head of Iran's veterans' affairs office said Tuesday. "Some 2,100 martyrs have been martyred so far in Iraq or other places defending the holy mausoleums," Mohammad Ali Shahidi told the state-run IRNA news...

Syrian children show symptoms of "toxic stress" and are attempting self-harm and suicide in response to prolonged exposure to war, according to a report released Tuesday. Children do not feel safe at school and are developing speech disorders and incontinence, and some are even losing the...

Iraqi forces retook the provincial government headquarters and a second bridgehead on the River Tigris in west Mosul on Tuesday, the third day of a new drive against the Islamic State group. The operation to retake west Mosul -- IS's largest remaining urban stronghold -- was launched on...