Turkey ignored U.S. sanctions and pressed on with its offensive in northern Syria Tuesday, while the Russia-backed Syrian army roared into one of the most hotly contested cities abandoned by U.S. forces in Donald Trump’s retreat. Reuters journalists accompanied Syrian government forces who...

 Russia said on Tuesday it would not allow clashes between Turkey and Syria as Ankara presses a military operation against Kurdish forces. "This would simply be unacceptable," Moscow's special envoy on Syria, Alexander Lavrentyev, was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies....

Hundreds of people were killed or wounded in violence related to Afghanistan's recent presidential election season as the Taliban sought to undermine the democratic process, a UN agency said Tuesday. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) reported that 85 people were...

Syria's Kurds put up stiff resistance Tuesday around an ethnically divided border town that is a key goal of Ankara's nearly week-old invasion, a war monitor reported. The Syrian Democratic Forces, the de-facto army of the Kurdish administration in northeast Syria, "launched a major...