Syrian government forces used chemical weapons in opposition-controlled parts of Aleppo during battles to retake the city late last year, Human Rights Watch said in a report published on Monday. The findings add to mounting evidence of the use of banned chemical weapons in the six-year-old...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday a new round of Syria talks in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana would be held in the same format as last month. In comments reported by Russia’s official TASS news agency, Lavrov said the Astana meeting would be used to promote a cease-fire...

A roadside bomb killed three Pakistani paramilitary soldiers in a restive northwestern tribal area bordering Afghanistan, officials said Monday. The Improvised Explosive Device went off as the trio were on patrol Sunday on a motorbike in Toikhola village in South Waziristan tribal district....

(The Guardian )- American airstrikes in Afghanistan’s Helmand province may have killed at least 18 civilians, mostly women and children, according to the UN and local sources. The airstrikes took place late on Thursday in Sangin district, which has been highly contested for most of the...