Turkish forces and their allies attacked Syrian regime troops in northeastern Syria on Thursday, killing some of them, and they also clashed with Kurdish-led fighters, the state-run news agency and a war monitoring group said. The fighting underscored the risks of violence as multiple and...

There were moments during the days-long Turkish siege of a Syrian hospital that Raman Ouso did not think he would get out alive. The 27-year-old nurse was part of a small team of medics that stayed to help the wounded in the town of Ras al-Ain in northern Syria earlier this month despite an...

Strikes are keeping classrooms shut at the start of the school year in Libya as teachers seek better pay from a budget under strain from a massive public salary bill and renewed conflict. State-run schools were meant to open on Oct. 13, but teachers angered by falling living conditions and...

Iraqi authorities committed serious human rights violations and abuses in their response to a wave of anti-government protests earlier this month that saw 149 civilians killed, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) said. In a report by its Human Rights Office published late...