US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis met Saudi King Salman on Wednesday, beginning a series of talks to reinvigorate the Riyadh-Washington alliance in the face of common adversary Iran. The retired four-star Marine general, accompanied by a US delegation, was welcomed by Salman at Al-Yamama...

The president of the European Commission believes "real" Brexit talks will only start after British snap elections called for June 8, an EU spokesman said Wednesday. Britain will also not have a say in the future location of London-based EU agencies, he added, contradicting one U.K. official...

A bomb killed six people and wounded more than 30 in Syria's second city Aleppo Wednesday, state television reported. The blast hit the southwestern neighborhood of Salaheddin, which was once on the front line between rebels and government forces before the army retook full control of the...

The evacuation of civilians and fighters from besieged Syrian towns resumed Wednesday after a weekend bombing at a transit point killed 126 people, 68 of them children, an AFP correspondent reported. Dozens of buses from the government-held towns of Fuaa and Kafraya, which have been...