Too poor to even buy pens and notebooks for school, Mehdi left his home in Afghanistan soon after his 17th birthday and headed to Iran, hoping to make his way to Europe and find work. He never made it there. Instead, Mehdi ended up fighting in Syria's civil war, a conflict he had nothing to...

Tunisia has delayed the first round of its presidential elections by one week to Nov. 17, a spokesman for the elections commission said on Friday. The initial date had been set for Nov. 10 but this conflicted with an Islamic holiday, when many Tunisians are traveling. The parliamentary...

Two militants were killed on Friday morning by Indian forces in clashes near the capital of India-administered Jammu and Kashmir.  Three Indian soldiers were wounded in the Nowgam area on the outskirts of Srinagar amid the third major gunfight in the Kashmir region in the last 24...

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that Israel is prepared to wage a broad military campaign in Gaza but only as a last resort, after a two-day flareup of cross-border fighting less than two weeks before an Israeli election. “All Israelis should know that if a...