The recent U.S.-led airstrikes on the Assad regime were "necessary and proportionate", European Council President Donald Tusk said on Wednesday as he urged Russia and Iran to "stop playing games" in the region. Addressing members of the European Parliament in Strasbourg city as part of...

Iraqi courts have sentenced to death a total of more than 300 people, including dozens of foreigners, for belonging to Daesh (ISIS), judicial sources said Wednesday. The suspects are being tried by two courts, one near the former extremist stronghold of Mosul in northern Iraq and...

International chemical weapons inspectors will probably not go into the Syrian town of Douma Wednesday, a U.N. source in Syria told Reuters, marking a further delay to efforts to investigate a suspected poison gas attack there. A U.N. security team entered Douma on Tuesday ahead of the...

International inspectors on Tuesday entered the Syrian town where an alleged chemical attack was carried out earlier this month, following delays by Syrian and Russian authorities. The fact-finding mission from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is investigating...