KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Potential Islamic State threats against Americans in Afghanistan are forcing the U.S. military to develop new ways to get evacuees to the airport in Kabul, a senior U.S. official said Saturday, adding a new complication to the already chaotic efforts to get people out...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights said Saturday, in the eighth anniversary of the largest chemical weapons attack by the Syrian regime on the Eastern Ghouta suburbs of Damascus, the Syrian regime’s chemical weapons attacks have killed nearly 1,500 Syrian citizens and injured nearly 11,080...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Reports of targeted killings in areas overrun by the Taliban mounted Friday, fueling fears that they will return Afghanistan to the repressive rule they imposed when they were last in power, even as they urged imams to push a message of unity at Friday's prayers....

Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei, who is also commander-in-chief of the Iranian armed forces, appointed Shahram Irani as navy commander on Tuesday. Irani, 54, is the first Sunni high-ranking military commander in the armed forces and hails from Sanandaj, northwestern Kurdistan province,...