(Los Angeles Times)- As the war in Syria grinds into its seventh year this week, a vital building block of the country’s future has fallen victim to the carnage: the education of its children. About 1.75 million children and youth in Syria are out of school and most are up to six...

 A powerful explosion struck a bus in downtown Kabul during rush hour Monday, officials said, sending smoke rising in the sky just days after a deadly insurgent assault on Afghanistan's biggest military hospital. At least one woman was killed and eight others wounded in the blast, which...

Iraqi forces said Monday they had taken more territory from ISIS as they press an offensive that has seen them recapture a third of west Mosul and trap extremists inside. A renewed push launched on March 5 has forced ISIS out of several neighborhoods and key sites, including the main local...

They Syrian army and its allies gained control of an arterial road in a small rebel pocket in northeast Damascus early on Monday, bringing them close to splitting the enclave in two, activists said. The advance was along a road that links the besieged districts of Barzeh, Qaboun and Tishrin...