The U.S. wants to reduce Iran’s oil revenue to zero, the State Department director of policy planning said Monday. "We are working to minimize disruptions to the global market but we are confident there is sufficient global spare oil production capacity," Brian Hook told reporters....

At least 4,759 civilians were killed in the first half of 2018 by the parties to the conflict in Syria, including 593 civilians were killed in June, according to new report by t he Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR). The report notes that SNHR has largely focused, since it was...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani left Monday for a visit to Europe billed as of "prime importance" after the U.S. pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers. Rouhani was headed for Switzerland and scheduled to travel on to Vienna on Wednesday, where the nuclear...

KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh: U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said he heard "unimaginable" accounts of atrocities during a visit Monday to vast camps in Bangladesh that are home to a million Rohingya refugees who fled violence in Myanmar. Guterres described the situation for the...