Fighting raged in northwest Syria Thursday with clashes between regime forces and extremist-led fighters killing 130 combatants in two days, a monitoring group said. The Idlib region, home to some three million people, is supposed to be protected by a months-old international truce deal,...

A Yemeni rebel strike targeted a desalination plant in the southwestern Saudi province of Jizan, a Riyadh-led military coalition fighting the rebels said Thursday. The projectile struck near the plant in the Al-Shuqaiq area of Jizan late Wednesday, coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki was...

Regime attacks killed 16 civilians and nine combatants in Syria's jihadist-run northwest on Wednesday, a war monitor said, the latest violence to rattle a region housing three million people. Eleven civilians were killed in regime air strikes on a village in the Jabal al-Zawiya region...

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Wednesday demanded that deposed Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir stand trial for the mass killings perpetrated in Darfur. "Now is the time for the people of Sudan to choose law over impunity and ensure that the ICC suspects in the...