Fifteen soldiers died Sunday in an Islamic State group attack on an army bus in the central Syrian desert, a war monitor said, as state media reported a "terrorist attack". Despite the fall of IS's "caliphate" in 2019, the group continues to launch deadly attacks from hideouts in the Syrian...

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Russian military initiated a temporary cease-fire in two areas of Ukraine to allow civilians to evacuate, Russian state media reported Saturday, the first breakthrough in allowing people to escape the war. The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement it had...

LONDON (AP) — Russia’s attack on a nuclear power plant in Ukraine has revived the fears of people across Europe who remember the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, which killed at least 30 people and spewed radioactive fallout over much of the Northern Hemisphere. The U.N nuclear energy watchdog...

Three militants of the Russian-backed Palestinian Liwa al-Quds were killed on Friday in an ambush carried out by Islamic State in the Syrian desert, targeted two vehicles east of Palmyra city in the eastern countryside of Homs. Two more militants were wounded in the ambush of the Sabkhet...