Military officers from rival factions in Libya's conflict began U.N.-led talks in Geneva on Monday aimed at securing a ceasefire after 10 months of fighting on the outskirts of the capital, Tripoli. The so-called "Libyan Joint Military Commission" includes five senior officers from eastern...

Death toll from regime attack on Turkish troops in northern Syria on Monday has risen to six, the Defense Ministry said. At least five Turkish soldiers and a civil personnel were martyred and seven others injured in intense shelling by Bashar al-Assad regime forces in Idlib, the ministry...

 Several rural homes were reportedly destroyed overnight in Australia’s southeast but the wildfire threat had diminished by Sunday across New South Wales state and around the national capital Canberra, officials said. The New South Wales Rural Fire Service said in a statement on...

A children's advocacy group warned Friday that half of nearly 400,000 displaced people in the Syrian government's two-month-long offensive on the country's last rebel-held region are children, calling it a wave of displacement unlike anything seen before in the war in Syria. The...