President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged tougher immigration measures based on merit, following the deadly truck attack in New York City. "We will stop this craziness," he said. Trump said on Twitter that the driver in Tuesday's attack "came into our country through what is called the...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - With Islamic State near defeat in Syria, Damascus is setting its sights on territory held by Kurdish-led forces including eastern oil fields, risking a new confrontation that could draw the United States in more deeply and complicate Russian diplomacy. President...

Egypt's military said Tuesday its air force had carried out a desert raid, killing "a large number of terrorist elements" responsible for the deaths of 16 policemen earlier this month. The policemen were killed in an Oct. 20 shootout with militants on the road between Cairo and the...

A man seized by U.S. forces in Libya accused of involvement in an attack that killed the U.S. Ambassador in Benghazi in 2012 is a Syrian who had links to the suspected ringleader, Libyan military officials said Tuesday. U.S. special forces captured Mustafa al-Imam in the past few days...