A group of Libyan militias entered the capital Tripoli this week and said they were creating a "Libyan National Guard", to the alarm of the country's unity government and Washington. The Libyan capital has been controlled by dozens of militias with shifting loyalties and territories since...

 Turkish troops and Syrian rebels Saturday entered the ISIS-held town of Al-Bab in northern Syria, as government forces also approached the extremist bastion, activists said. "Turkish forces and allied rebels in the Euphrates Shield campaign entered the western edge of the town and took...

Delegations from the Syrian government and rebels along with U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura have been invited to attend meetings on the Syria crisis in Kazakhstan's capital of Astana on Feb. 15-16, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said Saturday. The implementation of the ceasefire government...

Turkey will hold a referendum on April 16 on proposed changes to the constitution that would replace its parliamentary system with the executive presidency sought by Tayyip Erdogan, the head of the High Election Board announced Saturday. The proposal would enable the president to issue...