Chinese President Xi Jinping told the military on Sunday to transform itself into an elite force, as he oversaw a parade with flybys of advanced jets and a mass rally of troops to mark 90 years since the founding of the People's Liberation Army. China's armed forces, the world's largest, are...

On the terrace of the Baron Hotel in Aleppo, the owner's widow, Roubina Tashjian, sorted through old photographs of its happier past in a more peaceful Syria. Founded by an Armenian family in 1911, the Baron played host to adventurers, writers, kings, aviators, Bedouin chiefs and presidents...

A 34-year-old man opened fire in a nightclub in the southern German city of Konstanz on Sunday, killing one person and seriously injuring three others, police said. The suspect suffered life-threatening injuries in a gunfight with police officers outside the music venue after they had rushed...

More than 40 troops and rebels have been killed in several days of clashes between Yemen's Saudi Arabia-backed army and insurgents allied with Iran near the Red Sea port of Mokha, officials said Sunday. Sixteen Huthi rebels and seven soldiers were killed in overnight clashes east of Mokha, a...