Turkish warplanes shot down an unidentified drone in Turkish air space near Syria on Friday and a U.S. official said Washington believed it was of Russian origin. The Russian defense ministry said all of its planes in Syria had safely returned to base and that all its drones...

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas Friday condemned the torching by Palestinians of a West Bank site holy to Jews amid warnings it could inflame more than two weeks of deadly violence. Abbas called the arson attack on the flash-point Joseph's Tomb in Nablus irresponsible and said a...

Syrian troops and their allies, backed by Russian jets, attacked insurgent fighters south of Aleppo on Friday, a source in Syria and a monitoring group and activists said, as the army expands a counter-offensive with support from Moscow's two-week-old air campaign. "The military...

A suspected al Qaeda suicide bombing, accompanied by an attack with guns and grenades, killed 10 soldiers guarding an intelligence building in the western Yemeni city of Hodaida on Friday, security sources said. The sources said two of the assailants were also killed. "Gunmen...