A Tunisian passenger train smashed into a semi-trailer truck racing to cross the tracks early Tuesday morning, killing 18 people as two carriages derailed. At least 86 people were injured when the speeding train hit the truck at 6:30 a.m. outside the town of Fahs, 60 kilometers (37 miles)...

Islam Army, key rebel group active east of Damascus, has waged a new missile attack on government-held neighborhoods of Syria's capital, activists said Tuesday. The Katyusha rockets have stormed Mezzeh 86 , a predominantly Alawite neighborhood. The shelling also reached al-Maliki district, few...

More than 23 civilians were killed by heavy insurgent shelling on government-controlled areas of the Syrian city of Aleppo, including near a mosque where children were taking religious lessons, Reuters reported Monday. State-run media said heavy shelling from Aleppo districts under the control...

Iran's deputy foreign minister for Middle East affairs will discuss Yemen's conflict at a meeting of a pan-Islamic body in Saudi Arabia, the Iranian Mehr news agency reported on Monday. Hossein Amir Abdollahian will join other officials from the Islamic world at a one-day extraordinary...