Evacuations of rebel fighters and civilians including wounded from the last opposition-held areas of Syria's Aleppo gathered pace early on Friday under a ceasefire that would see the government retake the city, monitors and a rebel official said. There was no sign, however, of...

Sanctions against Iran were officially extended for another decade Thursday, even though President Obama did not sign the legislation, a symbolic move intended to show the White House’s disapproval of the bill. The sanctions renewal, which passed Congress with enough votes to be...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry accused the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of carrying out "nothing short of a massacre" in Aleppo, where thousands were evacuated on Thursday from the last rebel bastion in a city besieged for years. Kerry, speaking at a news briefing, said...

Some 3,000 civilians and more than 40 wounded people, including children, were evacuated from east Aleppo Thursday in two evacuations, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said in a statement. "Many more" rotations of buses and ambulances would be needed in coming days, said...