U.S. forces launched airstrikes Friday to counter a major Taliban assault on an Afghan provincial capital, where terrified residents cowered in their homes amid explosions and gunfire as security forces try to beat the insurgents back. Officials said Afghan special forces were also...

Aid groups said the international airport in Yemen's capital has been hit with an average of one bomb every two weeks since a Saudi-led coalition closed it to all commercial traffic two years ago. The Norwegian Refugee Council and CARE International said the coalition has carried out 56...

Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz Tuesday welcomed the killing of a leading Syrian weapons scientist but declined to comment on reports his government was behind the fatal bombing. Gen. Aziz Asbar, head of a Syrian government weapons research center, was killed along with his...

 An international rights group is urging the U.S.-led coalition battling Daesh (ISIS) to investigate airstrikes that killed civilians in the campaign to liberate the Syrian city of Raqqa. Amnesty International says the coalition's admission last month that it killed 78 more civilians...