The United Nations Security Council and U.N. aid chief Stephen O'Brien on Thursday pushed for more aid and commercial access to Yemen, where a near total blockade by Saudi Arabia has slowed shipments to the war-torn Arabian Peninsula country to a trickle. O'Brien said 80 percent of Yemen's 25...

 Iranian state media say thousands of people have attended the funerals for eight Iranian volunteers killed in fighting against ISIS extremists in Syria, AP reported. Thursday's report by the official IRNA news agency says three of the volunteers were buried in the capital, Tehran, and the...

Islamic State militants in Syria have stormed government-held neighborhoods in the predominantly Kurdish northeastern city of Hassakeh, capturing several areas of the city, AP reported. Thursday's attack comes after the Islamic State group suffered several setbacks in northern Syria against...

   Two suicide bombers from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group have killed 10 Syrian soldiers in the northeastern city of Hasakeh, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Wednesday. Separately, at least 13 civilians were killed in a car bomb attack against a mosque...