Libya's elected parliament voted on Monday to extend its mandate, due to expire on Oct. 20, in a move likely to complicate U.N. attempts to end a crisis between the country's two rival governments. Four years after the uprising that toppled veteran ruler Muammar Gaddafi, the...

If Russia and the United States were able to agree on ways of solving the Syrian crisis, this might help towards the two powers finding common ground on Ukraine, Finnish President Sauli Niinisto said on Monday. The United States and its NATO allies denounced Russia for violating...

Syrian regime forces backed by key ally Russia is mobilizing troops to launch a major offensive on Hama and Homs provinces, seeking to fortify the predominantly Alawite Ghab plain, a military source told Zaman Al Wasl on Monday. The source said the regime Army and allied troops from Hezbollah,...

Three car bombs killed at least 50 people in Iraq Monday, including 35 in a single blast north of Baghdad and 10 in a rare attack in the south, officials said. The bombing in Zubayr, near Basra in southern Iraq, was claimed by the Sunni extremist Islamic State group, which has controlled...