A rowdy mob of over two dozen men on motorcycles streamed into the small square in the center of Manbij. They cheered and waved jerseys of their local soccer team, which had just beat the town's top club. The upset victory was sweet, and their wild chants reverberated, "My people! My people!"...

France on Thursday accused Iran of supplying weapons to Houthi rebels fighting a Saudi-led coalition in Yemen. "There is a problem in Yemen, it is that the political process has not begun, that Saudi Arabia feels regularly attacked by the Houthis, who are themselves supplied with arms...

A Turkish court Tuesday placed under arrest a German national who was caught seeking to cross Turkey's southern border to fight with a Kurdish militia in Syria, state media said. The man, 28, who has spent four years in the German military, was detained earlier in March seeking to cross...

About 2 million children were out of school in Yemen, the UN Children's Fund UNICEF has warned. "Nearly half a million children have dropped out of school since the 2015 escalation of conflict in Yemen, bringing the total number of out-of-school children to 2 million," UNICEF said in a...