At least 10 people including security personnel were killed and several others wounded in a suicide attack by the Taliban in eastern Helmand province of Afghanistan on Saturday, a government official said. Helmand provincial governor spokesman Omer Zowak told Anadolu Agency on the phone that...

The Syrian opposition will announce on Saturday its delegates for the next round of U.N.-based peace talks in Geneva planned for later this month, the main opposition umbrella group said. The choice of opposition delegates has been subject to disagreement and the U.N. envoy for Syria,...

A group of Libyan militias entered the capital Tripoli this week and said they were creating a "Libyan National Guard", to the alarm of the country's unity government and Washington. The Libyan capital has been controlled by dozens of militias with shifting loyalties and territories since...

 Turkish troops and Syrian rebels Saturday entered the ISIS-held town of Al-Bab in northern Syria, as government forces also approached the extremist bastion, activists said. "Turkish forces and allied rebels in the Euphrates Shield campaign entered the western edge of the town and took...