Nearly 300 people have been killed in several days of fighting since ISIS launched an attack against Syria's ancient city of Palmyra, an activist group said Sunday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of sources on the ground, said the toll...

The U.N. envoy to Yemen called on a Saudi-led military coalition and its adversaries to extend a humanitarian truce due to expire at 2000 GMT (4 p.m. ET) on Sunday to allow for the delivery of aid supplies. Mauritanian diplomat Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed made his appeal at the...

One of the young men was a high school literature student who helped his father tend the family olive trees in their isolated farming community near the Algerian border. The other lived in the capital Tunis, had a taste for fashion and worked as a travel agent. Jabeur Khachnaoui...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran will help oppressed people in the region, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday, days after Gulf Arab leaders met U.S. President Barack Obama and expressed concern about Iranian expansionism. Khamenei also denounced Saudi Arabia for its role leading a...