A nearly week-long barrage of anonymous shelling attacks on American interests across Iraq are intended to signal Iran's long reach and "embarrass" Baghdad amid spiralling US-Iran tensions, observers say. The incidents were not claimed but largely originated from areas where...

Syrian regime forces backed up by Russian warplanes led a deadly campaign against its citizens in the country’s northwest on Thursday, killing 28 people, at least seven of whom were civilians, a war monitor said on Friday, despite a ceasefire announced by Moscow just a day earlier....

The Islamic State group has lost its caliphate in Syria and Iraq, but in the forbidding mountains of northeastern Afghanistan the group is expanding its footprint, recruiting new fighters and plotting attacks on the United States and other Western countries, according to U.S. and Afghan...

The father could hardly bear seeing his 18-month-old daughter's panic every time the Syrian regime warplanes flew over their home. Every day for a month, she ran to him to hide in his arms, tearful and breathless. Abdurrahim had refused to flee his hometown throughout years of violence, and...