A senior Kurdish official says the U.S. role in the fight against Daesh (ISIS) militants in Syria's Raqqa must not end with the liberation of the city but continue as a guarantor of its future stability. Ilham Ahmed says the Kurdish-led effort to secure the city after liberation needs U.S....

Syria views a U.S. decision to halt CIA support to rebel groups fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad as a "start" toward ending the six-year conflict, a government minister told Reuters. "All these steps are the start to solving the Syrian crisis, and without that there is no...

Thousands of Jordanian mourners chanted "death to Israel" as they attended the funeral Tuesday of a teenager shot dead by an Israeli embassy security guard. Mohammed Jawawdeh, 17, was killed Sunday after he assaulted the guard with a screwdriver at the embassy compound, according to Israeli...

Any U.S. decision to supply Ukraine with lethal weapons would set back peace efforts and escalate tensions, the Kremlin said Tuesday. The Kremlin was referring to an interview given by U.S. special envoy on Ukraine, Kurt Volker, to Britain's broadcaster BBC, in which he said that Washington...