Iraqi forces backed by jets and helicopters battled jihadists inside west Mosul on Saturday but still faced a tough and potentially protracted battle to retake the Islamic State group's bastion. Almost a week into a major push on the city's west bank, they were gaining significant ground,...

 French judges have placed two people under formal investigation and detained them on suspicion of wanting to travel to Syria or planning attacks in France, a judicial source said on Saturday. They were arrested last Tuesday along with a third person by French intelligence agents in the...

Morocco's King Mohammed VI has called on the United Nations to take "urgent measures" following months of tensions with the Polisario independence movement in the disputed Western Sahara region. The king talked with U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres, denouncing the Polisario Front,...

Syria's chief negotiator at U.N.-sponsored talks in Geneva demanded Saturday that all opposition parties at the talks condemn the deadly assault in Homs or be considered "accomplices of terrorism." "Any party who refuses to condemn these attacks today we will consider that party to be an...