A 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck southwest Iran near the border with Iraq Monday, the country's national seismological center reported. The quake, whose epicenter was in the Masjed Soleiman area of Khuzestan province, hit at 11:30 a.m. (0700 GMT) at a depth of 17 kilometers....

Regime bombardment Sunday killed 12 civilians including three children in an opposition bastion in northwestern Syria, a war monitor said. Idlib, a region of some three million people, has come under increasing fire by the regime and its ally Russia since late April, despite a months-old...

Qusayr, a once bustling commercial hub in western Syria, has not seen any fighting since government troops, with the help of Lebanon’s powerful Iran-backed Hezbollah group, drove out Sunni Muslim rebels six years ago. Large sections of the city lie in ruin and of the thousands who fled...

The Arab coalition at war in Yemen said Saturday its forces intercepted drones fired by Yemeni rebels at the kingdom. The statement by the Arab coalition said the drones had been launched by the Houthi rebels from Yemen's capital of Sanaa, but did not say where the drones had been...