A Russian general has reportedly been seriously wounded in Palmyra, the first Russian military person of the rank of general to be injured in the war, Fontanka and TV Rain reported. Maj. Gen. Pyotr Milyukhin reportedly lost both his legs and an eye in an explosion a week ago during a...

Damage to the World Heritage site of Palymra by ISIS militants may be less than earlier believed, Syria's antiquities chief said Friday. Maamoun Abdulkarim told Reuters that video from Palmyra after it was recaptured by the Syrian army has shown less damage than archaeologists feared when...

An Iraqi military commander says forces have taken control of another neighborhood in western Mosul. Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool, spokesman of the Joint Military Operations Command, tells The Associated Press Friday that despite bad weather, Iraqi special operations forces have completely...

The U.N. Security Council Friday kicked off a visit to spotlight Africa's worst humanitarian crisis as millions face hunger amid the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria and the Lake Chad region. One question in the aid response is the United States, which pledged no funding for the Nigeria...