There "seems to be no agreement" on two key issues just hours before the latest international conference on Syria is held Friday in New York, Iran's foreign minister said. Mohammad Javad Zarif told The Associated Press on Thursday that his country has seen "no lists we can agree upon" of...

The number of people who have been forced to flee war, violence and persecution looks set to soar in 2015 past last year's record of nearly 60 million, the UN said Friday. The UN refugee agency released a report showing rocketing numbers of people living as refugees, asylum seekers or...

The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council were struggling to agree on a draft resolution endorsing an international bid to end the five-year-old civil war in Syria ahead of ministerial talks taking place in New York on Friday. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations,...

The Russian Defense Ministry said late on Thursday that senior British military officials had met with their Russian counterparts in Moscow to discuss how best to avoid incidents between the two countries' armed forces at sea and in the air. Britain has complained of increasingly having to...