Their images are by now well known: the thousands of women and children who emerged from ISIS’s last stronghold, now housed in the al Hol detention camp in Northwest Syria. According to Kurdish forces, these are the wives and children of foreign fighters, and their future hangs in the...

It was only when his children began to starve that Abdullah al-Amour decided time had come to leave the sanctuary of Rukban camp with his family to face an uncertain fate back under Syrian President Bashar Assad. The cattle trader from Palmyra fled to Rukban on the Syrian border with Jordan...

European leaders will try to bring bitter foes Serbia and Kosovo back to the negotiating table at a regional summit in Berlin on Monday, hoping to reboot a dialogue over one of the Balkans' thorniest disputes. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron are hosting...

There will be no enduring peace in Afghanistan unless the Taliban adapt to the changes that have swept the country since they were ousted in 2001, a U.S. diplomat said Sunday. Special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, who is leading U.S. efforts to forge a peace deal with the Taliban, made the...