The UN Security Council on Tuesday failed to agree on a joint declaration on war-torn Syria, capping a day of negotiations in which the organization's special envoy to the country called to jump-start the deadlocked peace process. Russia, Syria's main ally, repeatedly blocked negotiations...

UN human-rights experts on Tuesday urged 57 countries whose nationals are detained in the notorious Al-Hol and Roj detention camps in northeastern Syria to repatriate them “without delay.” They warned that failure to do so could be tantamount to torture under international law. The...

Authorities in Canada are reviewing an audio recording in which someone identified as a high-ranking government official says it is possible that a Ukrainian airliner that crashed in Iran last year was deliberately downed, local media reported Tuesday.   Canadian official...

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Tuesday defended his recent controversial visit to Moscow in an address to a plenary session of the European Parliament.  “Foreign policy cannot be reduced to issuing statements from a safe distance, from my office at the...