Opposition activists said Friday airstrikes have stopped in northwestern Syria after a truce went into effect there, seeking to reduce violence in the wake of a three-month government offensive. Syrian state media quoted an unnamed military official as saying the conditional cease-fire went...

Al-Qaeda gunmen killed 19 soldiers in an attack on an army base in southern Yemen Friday, security officials said, a day after deadly assaults by rebels and a jihadist bomber. The gunmen stormed Al-Mahfad base in Abyan province and remained inside for several hours before military...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday decried “decades of bad behavior” from China that have hampered free trade, laying out a case at a Southeast Asian forum for Washington’s escalating trade war with Beijing. Pompeo’s statements came after President Donald Trump on...

A dozen of Republican U.S. congressmen urged Germany in a letter to designate Iran-backed Hezbollah a terrorist group, according to Israeli daily Jerusalem Post.   "We urge your government to take a profound step in the war against terrorism... And eliminate the artificial...