A car bomb in northeast Syria targeting a checkpoint manned by Turkish-backed forces, killed six people, mostly fighters, near the border town of Ras al-Ayn on Thursday, a war monitor said. The blast in the village of Tal Halaf held by Turkish forces and their Syrian allied fighters...

Palestinian refugee Fidaa Atiyeh Ajaj and her daughters Aya Mohamed Khalil and Israa Mohamed Khalil have been secretly held in Syrian government prisons for the seventh consecutive year. Sometime earlier, an ex-detainee released from Syrian lock-ups said that the woman and her daughters...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday gave his clearest indication yet that the United States would seek to force UN sanctions on Iran if an arms embargo lapses. Russia and China, two of the Permanent Five nations that enjoy veto power on the Security Council, want the UN embargo on...

Florida registered a record 253 coronavirus deaths on Thursday, setting a grim new high for the third day in a row as the state closes down some COVID-19 test centers due to a looming tropical storm. The state's daily toll has leapt over the last week, bringing the overall deaths to 6,586,...