An American drone strike targeted and "likely killed" Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour in a remote area of Pakistan on Saturday, U.S. officials said, in a major and rare American military raid in the country. The airstrike, authorized by President Barack Obama, also killed a second adult...

The Yemeni government delegation is to rejoin UN-brokered peace talks in Kuwait with Shiite rebels who control the capital, ending a four-day boycott, the UN special envoy said on Sunday. The hard-won negotiations on ending a conflict that has killed more than 6,400 people and driven 2.8...

On a secret trip to Syria, the new commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East said Saturday he felt a moral obligation to enter a war zone to check on his troops and make his own assessment of progress in organizing local Arab and Kurd fighters for what has been a slow campaign to push the...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes between Islamic State and Peoples’ Protection Units (PYD)-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the past two days on the front lines south of al-Shadadi strategic city in southern countryside in Hasaka province, local sources reported....