(Reuters) - Thousands of police in riot gear and National Guard troops patrolled Baltimore to enforce a curfew on Tuesday night, dispersing protesters with pepper spray a day after the city was shaken by the worst rioting in the United States in years. With helicopters overhead and...

Syrian raids hit Red Cross hospital in the neighborhood of al-Sakhour in Aleppo, leaving four wounded, activists said Tuesday. The barrel-bomb attack on the only active hospital in the eastern district of Aleppo has left  major damage as big part of the building had turned to rubble,...

Ultra-radical Islamic State insurgents have killed at least 2,154 people off the battlefield in Syria since the end of June when the group declared a caliphate in territory it controls, a Syrian human rights monitor said on Tuesday. The killings of mostly Syrians included deaths by beheading,...

 Jets from a Saudi-led alliance destroyed the runway of Yemen's Sanaa airport on Tuesday to prevent an Iranian plane from landing there, Saudi Arabia said, as fighting across the country killed at least 30 people. Yemeni Vice President Khaled Bahah had called on the Houthis on...