BEIRUT—Islamic State fighters backed by tanks have captured 21 Kurdish villages over the past 24 hours in northern Syria near the Turkish border, prompting civilians to...
MANAMA, Bahrain—Bahraini authorities on Thursday released human rights activist Maryam al-Khawaja, who was being held for questioning after her arrest on arrival in the Gulf Arab...
WASHINGTON—A congressional committee on Benghazi gets its public debut Wednesday, two years after militants in the eastern Libyan city killed the U.S. ambassador and three other...
WASHINGTON—Osama bin Laden is dead and al-Qaida dispersed, yet the horrors keep coming. Western hostages beheaded on camera. School girls abducted by gunmen in the night....
Sam Kutesa began his first day as president of the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday by describing the current year as “tumultuous” and the year ahead as...
WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama welcomed the new leader of embattled Ukraine to the White House, but he stopped short of fulfilling his visitor’s urgent request for lethal...
MANCHESTER, N.H.—The Sudanese woman imprisoned for refusing to reject Christianity said in a televised interview airing Monday night that she was resolved to keep her faith...
MALTA – A ship traveling from Guinea was denied entry into Maltese waters after it was disclosed that the vessel was carrying a passenger suspected of...
The university student was desperate to flee Gaza after suffering through years of border closures and three wars. In early September, a week after the latest...
For four decades, a multinational United Nations mission has quietly monitored the sleepy Golan Heights—providing a symbol of stability between bitter enemies as it enforced a...