KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban captured a strategic provincial capital near Kabul on Thursday, the 10th the insurgents have taken in a weeklong sweep across Afghanistan just weeks before the end of the American military mission there. Seizing Ghazni cuts off a crucial highway...

MOSCOW (AP) — Syria's air defense forces shot down seven out of eight missiles launched by Israeli warplanes during a raid that targeted the Syrian province of Aleppo, the Russian military said Tuesday. Rear Adm. Vadim Kulit, the head of the Russian military's Reconciliation Center in...

Overlooking war-battered Gaza from the tenth floor of a tower block, Palestinian human rights lawyer Raji Sourani has a new bundle of files -- on victims of last month's war with Israel. For years, he has been building cases in the Israeli-blockaded enclave to be submitted to the...

The Russian military launched sweeping maneuvers in the Mediterranean Sea featuring warplanes capable of carrying hypersonic missiles on Friday, in a show of force amid a surge in tensions following an incident with a British destroyer in the Black Sea. Moscow said one of its warships...