DAMASCUS: A senior U.N. official arrived in Syria Saturday for talks on a plan to suspend fighting between government and rebel forces in the country's second city Aleppo. Ramzi Ezzedine Ramzi, deputy to the U..N envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, is to hold a series of meetings in...

(Reuters) - Islamic State fighters stormed a town in Iraq's western Anbar province on Saturday, killing at least 19 policemen and trapping others inside their headquarters, in the latest attack in the desert region where it controls large amounts of territory, officials said....

(Reuters) - Islamic State's self-declared police force in western Syria decapitated four men after accusing them of blasphemy, a rights group monitoring the Syrian conflict said on Saturday. The men were beheaded in the countryside east of the city of Homs by the militant...

Suspected Taliban militants shot dead 12 anti-landmine workers in  Afghanistan ’s southern Helmand province Saturday, Afghan police said. According to provincial police spokesman Farid Ahmad Obaid,  suspected Taliban riding motorbikes opened fire on the workers...