The United States will send armored vehicles and combat troops into eastern Syria to keep oil fields from potentially falling into the hands of Islamic State militants, U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said. It was the latest sign that extracting the military from Syria is more uncertain...

Yemen’s internationally recognised government has struck a power-sharing deal with southern separatists in a bid to end their infighting in the country's south, officials said on Friday. The deal would see the secessionist Southern Transitional Council (STC) handed a number of...

There were moments during the days-long Turkish siege of a Syrian hospital that Raman Ouso did not think he would get out alive. The 27-year-old nurse was part of a small team of medics that stayed to help the wounded in the town of Ras al-Ain in northern Syria earlier this month despite an...

Fourteen people will go on trial in Paris next May over the January 2015 attacks on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper and other targets that heralded a wave of jihadist strikes on France, judicial sources said Wednesday. The trial will take place from May 4 to July 10, lawyers and a judicial...