Russian air strikes and fierce clashes Wednesday rocked a sliver of territory in southwestern Syria held by Daesh (ISIS), an activist group said. Much of the southern province of Deraa had been quiet since Friday, when a ceasefire between rebels and Syria's regime ended a nearly...

At least 270 journalists have been trapped in Syria’s southwestern Daraa province amid an ongoing regime offensive in the region, the Syrian Journalists Association said Tuesday. An Anadolu Agency freelance reporter is among the trapped journalists, as well as media activists and...

An Arab-led coalition has made no major gains in its offensive to wrest control of Yemen’s Hudaida port from the Iran-aligned Houthis, leaving it without the decisive increase in leverage it had sought against the group in U.N.-sponsored peace efforts. The alliance led by Saudi Arabia and the...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, on a surprise visit to Afghanistan Monday, promised support for President Ashraf Ghani's bid to start peace talks with the Taliban and repeated the United States itself would be willing to join the talks. The visit, coming at the end of a tour of...