The United Arab Emirates says an Emirati soldier has been killed while taking part in the Saudi-led war in Yemen. The state-run WAM news agency reported the soldier's death Friday. It identified the slain soldier as Sgt. Nader Mubarak Issa Suleiman. The UAE is one of the main allies...

   An ISIS-linked group has killed scores of moderate and Islamist rebels who were taken captive during the clashes, a rebel official and the SITE Intelligence Group said Thursday. An offshoot of the Jund al-Aqsa group killed roughly 150-200 members of rebel factions and of another...

U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura called Thursday for greater efforts in the push for peace in Syria, as he visited Moscow ahead of a fresh round of talks in Geneva. De Mistura was in Russia for meetings with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu as the United Nations...

 Kazakhstan said a new round of talks on the Syria conflict backed by Russia, Turkey and Iran and endorsed by the United Nations were going ahead Thursday after a day's delay. A plenary session involving all three power-brokers and delegations from the Syrian government and opposition...