New U.S. air force statistics show the U.S. dropped more bombs on Afghanistan last year than any year since 2013, even as Washington's peace envoy sought to boost regional support for a reduction in violence ahead of a final deal to end America's longest war. In a statement Saturday,...

 Several rural homes were reportedly destroyed overnight in Australia’s southeast but the wildfire threat had diminished by Sunday across New South Wales state and around the national capital Canberra, officials said. The New South Wales Rural Fire Service said in a statement on...

Furious anti-government youth held their ground in protest squares across Iraq's south on Sunday, despite the previous evening's appointment of a prime minister who insists he is an independent. Mohammad Allawi announced his own nomination as premier on Saturday, which marked exactly four...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels killed at least 33 troops from coastal Tartus province in January in the battlefronts of Idlib and Aleppo provinces, activists said. The death toll included Brigadier General and 17 more officers from the main stronghold for Bashar al-Assad's manpower....