Pro-Syrian regime forces advanced in a Daesh (ISIS) pocket in southwest Syria Sunday, a military media center run by Damascus' ally Hezbollah reported, despite a threat to hostages the militants seized last week. Syrian state television broadcast footage from near the scene of the...

Gunmen raided a midwife training center in eastern Afghanistan Saturday in an ongoing attack that has left at least three people wounded and sparked fierce fighting with security forces, officials and witnesses said. At least 67 people, including students and teachers, were inside the...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) denied reports on Thursday that Yemen's Iranian-aligned Houthi movement had attacked Abu Dhabi airport with a drone, and said operations were unaffected. Houthi-run media said earlier that a Sammad-3 drone had launched three strikes on the facility,...

The death toll from coordinated attacks by Islamic State fighters on a usually peaceful southern city and surrounding countryside has climbed to 216, a local health official said Thursday, in the worst violence to hit the area since the country's conflict began. Mass funerals were held...