Iraqi army units advanced from southeast Mosul towards a bridge across the Tigris in the city center on Tuesday, in an attack that could give fresh impetus to the hard fought, seven-week battle for Islamic State's northern Iraq stronghold. Campaign commander Lieutenant General Abdul Ameer...

Russia's foreign minister Tuesday accused the U.S. of backtracking on planned talks in Geneva over a rebel pullout from Syria's Aleppo to "buy time" for those battling leader Bashar Assad. "It looks like an attempt to buy time for the rebels to have a breather, take a pause and replenish...

One day after her account disappeared from social media, a seven-year old Syrian girl who captured world attention with her Twitter messages re-tweeted again on Monday about her life under bombardment in the northern city of Aleppo. Bana Alabed disappeared from social media on Sunday after...

British Prime Minister Theresa May is to join Gulf Arab leaders gathered for a summit in Bahrain Tuesday for talks on trade after Britain's exit from the European Union. May is the first British premier and the first woman to attend the annual summit of the six oil-rich Gulf Cooperation...