A Moscow jury convicted five men on Thursday in the assassination of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov on a bridge near the Kremlin two years ago, ending a nine-month trial that his supporters said had failed to bring the true masterminds of slaying to justice. The brazen killing so close to...

More than 16 years into the Afghanistan war, the United States and its NATO allies wrangled anew on Thursday over how to meet the need for more troops to counter the resurgent Taliban and help the Afghan forces break a stalemate in the fight. At a meeting in Brussels, NATO agreed to send...

(Eqtsad)- At the end of 2006, while preparing for the launch of al-Donia television, many employees insisted on knowing who the channel financiers were before beginning work with the channel for fear the channel was funded by a party hostile to the regime. The television channel administration...

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Wednesday that the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad appeared so far to have heeded a warning this week from Washington not to carry out a chemical weapons attack. Russia, the Syrian government's main backer in the country's civil war,...