Unidentified gunmen launched separate attacks on Saturday, targeting military and security checkpoints in the town of al-Sanamayn in southern Daraa province. Zaman al-Wasl correspondent said the attacks affected the checkpoints of "Qaita, al-Souk, the Moustafa complex, and al-Zein...

LONDON — Britain's Defense Ministry says Russia continues to besiege a number of major Ukrainian cities including Kharkiv, Chernihiv and Mariupol. A daily update says Russian forces are proving reluctant to engage in large scale urban infantry operations, rather preferring to rely on the...

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Formula One appeared on schedule to race Sunday at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix after nearly four hours of meetings over attacks on the kingdom by Yemen’s Houthis rebels. The 20 drivers on the grid met several times Friday in talks that stretched well past 2...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — About 300 people were killed in the Russian airstrike last week on a Mariupol theater that was being used as a shelter, Ukrainian authorities said Friday in what would make it the war's deadliest known attack on civilians yet. The bloodshed at the theater fueled...