Iraqi militia factions expected the usual cash handout when the new head of Iran’s expeditionary Quds Force made his first visit to Baghdad earlier this year, succeeding the slain General Qassim Soleimani. Instead, to their disappointment, Esmail Ghaani brought them silver rings. For his...

Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham militants attacked a group of journalists covering a joint Turkish-Russian military patrol in northwest Syria’s Idlib province on Wednesday, causing outrage in the rebel-held enclave. The attack took place near Turkish soldiers supervising the patrol on the M4...

The death toll from an attack by jihadists linked to the Islamic State group on a village in northeast Nigeria has risen to 69, security sources and residents said Wednesday. Fighters believed to be from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) faction shot and ran over residents with...

Israel's Supreme Court struck down a law Tuesday that had retroactively legalized about 4,000 settler homes built on privately owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. A nine-judge panel voted to repeal the 2017 measure, under which settlers could remain on land if they built there...