Airstrikes on a rebel-held town in northwestern Syria killed nine people on Saturday, pro-opposition activists said, the latest to hit the area where Al-Qaeda's former affiliate has a strong presence. Most of those killed in the Idlib province town of Maarat Masrin were civilians, the...

 Islamic State militants launched their biggest attack in months on regime-held areas of the city of Deir al-Zor on Saturday, killing dozens of civilians and regime troops, a war monitor said. At least six large explosions rocked the city since dawn as the militants clashed with the army...

 Ransom-seeking Muslim militants in the southern Philippines freed Saturday a South Korean captain and his Filipino crewman who were abducted three months ago from their cargo ship amid a wave of offshore kidnappings, officials said. Abu Sayyaf gunmen handed skipper Park Chul-hong and...

Maintenance workers arrived in Syria's rebel-held Wadi Barada near Damascus Friday to fix the water facility there, signaling an end to the violent standoff that has dried out the capital for weeks and threatened a fragile cease-fire, activists and the government said. For days, negotiations...