Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov on Tuesday confirmed that troops from the mainly Muslim Caucasus region were serving as Russian military police in the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo. Kadyrov wrote on Instagram that MP Adam Delimkhanov and Chechnya's chief mufti, Salakho-Khadzhi...

Dozens of rebel Turkish soldiers went on trial Monday over their alleged role in last year's failed coup, in the first case to be heard of dissident troops in Istanbul. Prosecutors say the defendants attempted to take over Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen Airport on the night of July 15, when rogue...

Syrian rebels are due to meet their war-torn country's government Monday in the Kazakh capital Astana, in the latest push to end the conflict. Scheduled to begin at 2 p.m., the planned face-to-face talks would be the first time armed rebel groups have negotiated with President Bashar...

Iran's official news agency says search teams have found four more bodies of victims from last week's deadly building collapse in Tehran. IRNA's report on Monday quotes Jalal Maleki, spokesman for the fire department, as saying the four bodies do not belong to any of the firefighters still...