Vineyard owner Haidar al-Zahar recalls with joy the day in 2005 when Israel removed its settlers and troops from the Gaza Strip, part of a withdrawal that few Palestinians thought they would ever see. "I felt like a prisoner who suddenly found himself a free man," he said. A decade and...

South Korea and the United States on Thursday reaffirmed their commitment to defending "the hard-fought peace" on the divided peninsula as the allies marked the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War. Communist North Korea invaded the US-backed South on June 25, 1950, triggering...

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said Wednesday it deployed troops in the province of Abyan to monitor a ceasefire between the internationally recognized government and the southern separatists. Yemen’s Saudi-backed government and the United Arab Emirates-backed Southern...

The UN chief called for more pressure to be applied to Yemen's warring parties to come together to arrange a cease-fire in the war that has cost more than 10,000 lives and displaced two million people in the world's worst humanitarian disaster. Yemeni people are "suffering terribly" and...