US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday that negotiators will meet in the coming days on reaching a Gaza truce as he again called for Israel and Hamas to strike a deal. “We talked about options to capitalize on this moment and next steps to move the process forward, and I...

The lower house of Russia’s parliament, the State Duma, voted on Thursday to ratify a treaty of partnership between Russia and North Korea. Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed the mutual defense pact during Putin’s visit to Pyongyang in June....

The UN said Wednesday that the international community urgently needs to focus on Syria amid escalating conflicts in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Gaza and Lebanon.  "Syria demands our collective attention," UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen said at a UN Security Council...

Three Lebanese Army soldiers were killed in an Israeli airstrike while attempting to rescue injured people from the aggressive forces' earlier attack on southern Lebanon, according to an official statement issued Thursday morning. The Israeli attack is the second deadliest on the Lebanese Army...