At least 22 people were killed in clashes between government forces and rebels on the outskirts of the flashpoint city of Taez in southwest Yemen, military sources said Tuesday. The fighting late Monday north of Taez, held by loyalists but partly surrounded by Shiite Houthis and their rebel...

China has returned a US underwater probe it seized in the South China Sea, the Pentagon confirmed after Beijing's capture of the craft prompted a dispute between the two powers. The Chinese navy handed over the drone near the location it had been seized, the Pentagon said, repeating US...

 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in a statement that a meeting in Moscow later on Tuesday between the foreign ministers of Iran, Turkey and Russia would adopt tangible measures on Syria. Lavrov also condemned the murder of Russia's ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov on...

Thousands of traumatized Syrians left the rebel enclave of Aleppo Monday as the UN voted to deploy observers there and said it planned new peace talks in Geneva in February. "It is the intention of the United Nations to convene those negotiations in Geneva on 8 February 2017," UN envoy...