The Taliban launched an attack on a second Afghan city in as many days Sunday, an official said, even as a United States envoy says the U.S. and the Taliban are "at the threshold of an agreement" to end America's longest war. The spokesman for the Baghlan province police chief, Jawed...

A Saudi-led military coalition said on Sunday it had launched air strikes on Houthi military targets in southwest Yemen that Houthi-run media said had hit a prison, killing dozens of people. The Sunni Muslim coalition, which has been battling the Iran-aligned Houthi movement for more than...

At least 40 jihadist leaders were killed Saturday after a missile attack targeted their meeting in northwestern Syria, hours after a Russian-backed ceasefire came into effect, a war monitor said. The missiles targeted leaders of jihadist groups and allied factions near the city of...

Turkey will launch its own operation to establish a "safe zone" in Syria if talks with the United States fail to give Turkish troops control of the area within a few weeks, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday. Washington and Ankara have been at odds over plans for the region in...