The Syrian government extended its intense aerial campaign against rebel-held areas of the northern cities of Aleppo and Idlib on Tuesday, conducting a series of airstrikes that killed at least 40 people, including children and women, activists and monitoring group said. The Syria Network for...

The Islamic State's gains in the Iraqi city of Ramadi are setback for Iraqi security forces, the top U.S. military officer said on Monday, adding such setbacks were "regrettable but not uncommon in warfare." "Much effort will now be required to reclaim the city," Army General Martin Dempsey,...

The U.N. envoy to Yemen called on a Saudi-led military coalition and its adversaries to extend a humanitarian truce due to expire at 2000 GMT (4 p.m. ET) on Sunday to allow for the delivery of aid supplies. Mauritanian diplomat Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed made his appeal at the...

One of the young men was a high school literature student who helped his father tend the family olive trees in their isolated farming community near the Algerian border. The other lived in the capital Tunis, had a taste for fashion and worked as a travel agent. Jabeur Khachnaoui...