Ten of thousands of people have fled to Syria’s border with Turkey in the last few days as a regime army advance pushed further into the opposition’s last major stronghold, residents, rights groups and opposition sources said on Wednesday. They left Maarat al-Numan, a city in Idlib...

Although 50 years have passed since extremist Australian tourist Denis Michael Rohan set fire to East Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque, Palestinians say the flames are still engulfing the flashpoint site. The 1969 fire has destroyed nearly third of the al-Qiblah mosque, including the 1,000-year...

Iran-backed militias in Iraq have said they hold the United States responsible for a series of attacks targeting militia bases across the country. In a statement issued Wednesday, the deputy head of the militias known collectively as the Popular Mobilization Forces, or PMF, says the group...

The leader of southern Yemeni separatists has arrived in Saudi Arabia for talks aimed at ending a standoff in Aden port between the separatists and Yemen's Saudi-backed government, who had been nominal allies under the Arab coalition. Saudi Arabia, the coalition leader, called for a summit...