The leader of the Daesh/ISIS terrorist group in Iraq was killed in an airstrike in eastern Syria, the Iraqi government said on Tuesday. According to a statement by the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service, Moataz Numan Abdel Nayef Najm al-Jabouri was killed in an airstrike in Syria's Deir...

Syrian authorities loosened coronavirus lockdown restrictions Tuesday by cancelling a nighttime curfew, allowing travel between provinces and announcing a reopening of mosques, state media said. The decision comes as the war-torn country grapples with a crippling economic crisis and...

 Russia recently sent fighter jets to Libya to support Russian mercenaries fighting for strongman Khalifa Haftar, the U.S. military command for Africa (Africom) said Tuesday, in a major escalation in the long-running conflict. The military fighter aircraft left Russia and first stopped...

The U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday its work in Yemen was near a "potential breaking point" as coronavirus spreads in the war-damaged country, with rising numbers of families resorting to begging, child labor and marrying of children. Around 80 percent of Yemen's malnourished population...