At least 16 people have died while waiting for medical evacuation from Syria's besieged Eastern Ghouta region, the United Nations said Thursday. Jan Egeland, head of the U.N.'s humanitarian taskforce for Syria, said a list put together several months ago of nearly 500 civilians in...

When Vladimir Kabunin signed up as a private military contractor, he saw a chance to make a wage much higher than any he could earn in his provincial Russian hometown. Happy to be able to support his wife and son, the ex-police officer left Orenburg, nearly 1,500 km (940 miles)...

 The Saudi-led Arab coalition fighting Yemen's Shiite rebels said it intercepted a missile fired over southern Riyadh Tuesday, while the rebels said they targeted the royal palace in the kingdom's capital. It was the second time in as many months that a rebel projectile had reached...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Satellite images showed a new air base for the U.S. army in an oil-rich area south of Hasaka province. The presence of U.S. troops in northern Syria was initially meant to help train and support Kurdish-dominated local forces fighting the Islamic State group...