Mohammad Abkar thought he would be home by the time Ramadan rolled around, but the Yemeni father of three will spend the Muslim holy month in a camp -- displaced. The fasting month begins on Monday amid a war that has triggered what the UN calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis pushing...

The United States said Sunday it is deploying a carrier strike group and bombers to the Middle East in response to troubling "indications and warnings" from Iran and to show it will retaliate with "unrelenting force" to any attack. With tensions already high between Washington and Tehran, a...

Peace talks between the US and the Taliban were suspended for the beginning of Ramadan on Monday, with the two sides at apparent loggerheads over the key issue of when foreign forces might leave Afghanistan. The foes have spent much of the past week in a sixth round of talks in Doha aimed...

The United States may review its ties with countries it deems as being anti-Israel after what a U.S. envoy said on Sunday was a shift in policy toward equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a March speech that anti-Zionism - opposition to...