Tens of thousands of Russians took part Saturday in rallies across the country organized by Communists to protest against highly controversial plans to hike the pension age. In Moscow, organizers said up to 100,000 people gathered for a permitted rally against the government-backed...

The death toll from coordinated attacks by Islamic State fighters on a usually peaceful southern city and surrounding countryside has climbed to 216, a local health official said Thursday, in the worst violence to hit the area since the country's conflict began. Mass funerals were held...

Israeli police searched the Sea of Galilee for a rocket launched from Syria that may have landed in the lake on Wednesday, a spokesman said. After air raid sirens sounded in the south of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, the army said a rocket had been spotted launching from Syria...

A series of suicide bombings and attacks in southern Syria, including a suicide bomber who struck at a busy vegetable market, killed 70 people on Wednesday, state media and local activists reported, blaming Islamic State militants for the carnage. The attacks, the worst in recent...