A U.S.- or Turkish-backed attack on Islamic State in the Syrian city of Raqqa would be illegitimate unless coordinated with President Bashar al-Assad's government, the Syrian chief negotiator at peace talks in Geneva said on Friday. "Any military presence on our territory without the...

The international coalition battling the Islamic State group will begin a final push on the jihadists' Syrian stronghold Raqa in the coming days, French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Friday. But on the ground, the US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance spearheading the battle for the...

A Spanish aid organization said Friday that it feared that hundreds of migrants may have died Libya's coast after five bodies were found near two capsized boats while the search for a third vessel reported missing has so far proved futile. Proactiva Open Arms spokeswoman Laura Lanuza said...

Prominent Iraqi Shia cleric and politician Muqtada al-Sadr told supporters Friday to continue protesting government corruption -- even in the event of his assassination. In an address delivered to tens of thousands of supporters in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square, al-Sadr said he had received...