The United States and the Taliban have resolved differences in peace talks over U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, as well as over insurgent guarantees on cutting ties with other extremist groups, a Taliban official said Tuesday. The development came during U.S.-Taliban talks over the...

Damascus resumed air strikes on northwest Syria's Idlib Monday, a war monitor said, scrapping a ceasefire for the jihadist-run bastion and accusing its opponents of targeting an airbase of ally Russia. The northwestern region of some three million people is one of the last major centres of...

Bent over a computer tablet in war-torn northwest Syria, cartoonist Amani al-Ali takes her pen to the screen to sketch life in the embattled opposition bastion of Idlib. "I'm trying to get across what others struggle to say," said the 30-year-old artist, dressed in a long red jacket and...

The U.N. food agency Sunday said it reached an agreement with Yemen’s rebels to resume food deliveries to rebel-controlled parts of the country after suspending the aid for over a month. The partial suspension of aid to the capital, Sanaa, began in June amid accusations that the Houthi rebels...