Looking out over a park planted at Russia's naval facility in the Syrian port of Tartus, the base commander points to a row of trees. "These plants will have time to grow," the Russian says, his eyes shielded from the Mediterranean sun by a desert camouflage cap. Four years after they...

Hundreds of Kurds demonstrated in northeast Syria on Wednesday in protest at their minority community's "exclusion" from a United Nations-backed committee tasked with drafting a new constitution for the war-devastated country. Carrying placards, demonstrators gathered in front of UN offices...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's lawyers arrived for his pre-indictment hearing on corruption allegations Wednesday and pledged to convince prosecutors to drop the cases against him. Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit had in February announced his intention to indict the premier...

Iraq's president and the United Nations urged security forces to show restraint on Wednesday after two protesters were killed in clashes with police that other top officials blamed on "infiltrators." Hundreds took to the streets of the capital and cities across the south on Tuesday in the...