While hosting the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Washington and at Camp David this week, President Barack Obama faces a hard sell: assuring the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia that the United States has an Iran policy that encompasses their...

At least 37 people were killed Tuesday in a regime barrel bomb attack on a mini-bus stand in a rebel-held part of Syria's Aleppo city, activists said. "Helicopters committed a massacre, dropping a barrel bomb on a mini-bus station in the Fardous district of Aleppo, killing 20 civilians, among...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Russia to meet President Vladimir Putin with an eye on easing badly strained relations over conflicts in Ukraine and Syria. Kerry was to lay a wreath at a World War II memorial in the Black Sea resort city before meeting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey...

An official with the International Organization for Migration says at least four people were killed and a number of buildings collapsed in the isolated town of Chautara after Nepal's latest strong earthquake. IOM spokesman Paul Dillon says a search and rescue team has already begun...