Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said late Tuesday that his government opposed the United States joining Syrian peace talks to be held in Kazakhstan next week, local media reported. "We are hostile to their presence and we have not invited them," Zarif said, according to the...

Brazilian authorities are scrambling to stop a wave of prison violence that has killed at least 125 inmates in two weeks, many with their heads cut off or their hearts and intestines ripped out. Three massacres and many smaller fatal clashes, all in northern states, have followed a pattern that...

(Eqtsad)- Islamic State forces announced an auction to rent the Shaer gas field in the eastern countryside of Homs, activists said as the radical group fears the U.S.-led Coalition air strikes and seeks a rapid cash. Activist Judet al-Jiran said ISIS has resembled what is popularly known as...

(New York Times)- President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia declared on Tuesday that the political memo alleging that the Kremlin had sought for years to influence President-elect Donald J. Trump was “fake,” and he said that the effort to compile such a dossier was further evidence of the...