New U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Saudi Arabia Saturday on the first stop of his hastily-arranged visit to the Middle East as decisions on the Iran nuclear deal and a review of the U.S. role in Syria loom large. A State Department official said the visit to Riyadh,...

The Syrian regime army and its allies engaged in a fierce battle on Saturday with Daesh (ISIS) fighters in an enclave south of Damascus held by the jihadist group. Reuters witnesses, a war monitor and state television reported intense fighting including artillery bombardment and small...

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a military camp in the Somali town of Galkayo Saturday, killing four officers, officials said, in an attack claimed by the Al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group. The dead included a military commander and two colonels, the town's mayor, Hirsi Yusuf Barre,...

Syrian regime airstrikes and shelling killed 17 civilians including seven children Friday in the Palestinian camp of Yarmouk in southern Damascus, a Britain-based activist group said. Government forces have pounded southern districts of the capital since April 19 to try to expel Daesh (ISIS)...