KABUL (AFP)- A car bomb explosion claimed by the Taliban in Kabul on Saturday killed at least two civilians, as the militants maintain pressure on the capital amid growing calls for peace talks. Several others were wounded in the morning rush-hour suicide blast in an industrial area of...

Thousands of civilians streamed out of their towns to escape battles at opposite ends of Syria on Saturday, where two different offensives have prompted an exodus in recent days. Air strikes pounded a rebel pocket in eastern Ghouta near the capital Damascus, rescuers and a war monitor...

Syrian regime air strikes on Eastern Ghouta killed at least 30 civilians on Saturday, a monitor said, almost a month into a blistering Russia-backed regime assault on the Syrian rebel enclave outside Damascus. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights could not say who...

A Turkish air strike hit the main hospital in Syria's Afrin town Friday night, killing nine people, the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Turkey's military has denied hitting civilians in its offensive on the Afrin region, which it launched in...