Syrian government forces recaptured Palmyra on Sunday, state media and a monitoring group said, inflicting a significant defeat on the Islamic State group which had controlled the desert city since May last year. Syrian television quoted a military source saying the army and its militia allies...

Belgian prosecutors announced they have charged three men with terror offenses over the suicide attacks on the Brussels airport and subway, as organizers canceled a solidarity rally at the government's request because police are too strapped to cope. At a news conference in Brussels Saturday,...

Palmyra's ancient Roman temples and archway, blown up by Islamic State fighters last year, will be restored once Syria recaptures the city from the ultra-hardline Islamist group, the head of the antiquities authority said on Saturday. Mamoun Abdelkarim told Reuters he hoped...

 Two Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in the latest uptick in fighting with pro-Russian separatists in the country's war-torn east, a Kiev military official said Saturday. "As a result of fighting two Ukrainian servicemen were killed and another eight were wounded," Ukrainian military...