Gunmen have shot dead two Egyptian policemen in the bastion of the ISIS group in the Sinai Peninsula, the interior ministry said. "A police captain and a policeman died of their wounds after unknown assailants shot them" late Saturday in the North Sinai provincial capital El-Arish, the ministry...

Airstrikes by Russian jets hit targets around the town of Talbiseh in western Syria Sunday, residents and an activist group in Syria said, a day after Russia promised to step up its air campaign. Ambulances rushed wounded people to hospital in Talbiseh, north of the city of Homs, and one...

Russia said on Saturday it will step up air strikes in Syria, escalating a military intervention which Moscow says is weakening Islamic State militants but which Western powers say aims to support President Bashar al-Assad. A senior Russian military officer said Russian jets based...

The death toll from a landslide in Guatemala rose to 73 on Saturday, according to officials. The area where the landslide occurred remains unstable, according to the National Coordination for Disaster Reduction (CONRED). On Saturday evening, the agency urged the general population not to stay...