Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, has said that the first ship carrying Iranian fuel oil to help Lebanon through its financial crisis had docked in Syria. Nasrallah had announced last month that he had organised purchases of fuel from Iran, Hezbollah’s main backer...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Monday that it successfully tested newly developed long-range cruise missiles over the weekend, the first known testing activity in months, underscoring how the country continues to expand its military capabilities amid a stalemate in nuclear...

An uneasy calm held sway in a southern Syrian city Sunday after its opposition-held half returned to state control under a surrender deal, AFP journalists on a government-organised tour said. Daraa province and its capital of the same name, the cradle of Syria's uprising, returned to...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Women in Afghanistan can continue to study in universities, including at post-graduate levels, but classrooms will be gender-segregated and Islamic dress is compulsory, the higher education minister in the new Taliban government said Sunday. The minister, Abdul...