Hundreds of nationalist Buddhists took to the streets of Yangon on Wednesday to protest a government decision that could allow Rohingya Muslims to vote in a constitutional referendum. The Arakan Youth Organisation and the Myanmar National Network...

(Reuters) - Syria n government forces and their Lebanese Shi'ite allies took new ground in a major offensive in southern Syria on Wednesday, pressing a campaign against insurgents posing one of the biggest remaining threats to Damascus. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,...

(Reuters) - Yemenis in the capital Sanaa and the central city of Taiz held the largest protests yet against a takeover by a Shi'ite Muslim militia group on Wednesday after the United States, Britain and France shut their embassies over security fears. Hundreds massed in the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreign fighters are streaming into Syria and Iraq in unprecedented numbers to join the Islamic State or other extremist groups, including at least 3,400 from Western nations among 20,000 from around the world, U.S. intelligence officials say in an updated estimate...