Amnesty International said Thursday that scores of civilians were killed in a "massacre" in Ethiopia's Tigray region that witnesses blamed on forces backing the local ruling party. The "massacre" is the first reported incident of large-scale civilian fatalities in a week-old conflict...

France and the United States are expected to send diplomats to Moscow soon to discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Russia said on Thursday, two days after the Kremlin deployed troops to the ethnic Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan to secure a truce. The arrival on Tuesday of the peacekeepers...

Iran’s intelligence ministry has arrested an Iranian ethnic Arab separatist leader suspected of involvement in an attack on a military parade in 2018 in the Khuzestan province that killed dozens of people, Iranian state TV reported on Thursday. An Iranian ethnic Arab opposition movement...

More than 300,000 people have died of COVID-19 across Europe as countries are seeing a resurgence in the novel infection.  Overall, the continent has reported nearly 12.5 million cases and more than 306,000 deaths, according to data by the US-based Johns Hopkins University....