Intense battles raged Thursday as Kurdish fighters attempted to repel a new advance by Turkish troops and allied Syrian fighters on their encircled enclave in northwestern Syria. Meanwhile, Syrian government forces pushed into Idlib province, an opposition stronghold nearby,...

A United Nations humanitarian task force has been unable to make deliveries to desperate Syrians for the past two months as President Bashar Assad's government has withheld approval for aid convoys, the U.N. humanitarian adviser said Thursday. Before they can move into besieged...

Russia's main intelligence agency says it has killed a suspected member of Daesh (ISIS) who it says was plotting an attack on the country's presidential election day next month. The FSB said in a statement Thursday that the man resisted and was killed by security forces in the...

Saudi and Emirati envoys shuttled between Yemeni government forces and besieging southern separatists in second city Aden Thursday in a bid to end a tense standoff after days of deadly infighting. The Sunday assault on the embattled government's headquarters by its former allies...