It’s an incongruous sight, a woman in a salmon-pink hijab standing on a Massachusetts traffic median, waving at oncoming cars and asking perfect strangers to vote her into Congress. “Hey how are you? Good to see you!” Tahirah Amatul-Wadud hollers at a male pedestrian. A few...

Russia is allowing thousands of fresh North Korean laborers into the country and granting new work permits in potential violation of U.N. sanctions, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Over 10,000 new North Korean workers have registered in Russia since September, the paper said,...

The Jordanian army Thursday said it had killed a number of Daesh (ISIS) militants who had tried to approach its northern border with Syria. The incident Tuesday came as clashes raged between Syrian regime forces and "a gang of Daesh terrorists" in the Yarmuk Basin region of southwestern...

Israel said Thursday it saw potentially stabilizing benefits to Bashar Assad’s winning the Syrian civil war, after the Israeli military said it had killed seven Islamist insurgents in a rare air strike across the countries' frontier. The remarks, by Israel's defense minister, signal an...