war and unrest

REYHANLI, Turkey (AP) — Despite a month of heavy battering by Russian airstrikes, Syria's rebels have so far been able to fend off offensives by gover...

PARIS (AP) — France will reinstate controls on its borders — normally open to other countries in Europe's free-travel zone — for the period around a m...

BEIJING (AP) — China and Taiwan have been separately ruled since the Chinese civil war of the 1940s, but China claims sovereignty over the island and ...

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron declared Thursday it was "more likely than not" that a bomb brought down a Metrojet flight packed w...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The latest as tens of thousands of people flood into Europe in search of a new life. All times local. 6:30 p.m. Slovenia's presi...

LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — Egypt opened three tombs in the ancient city of Luxor to the public for the first time on Thursday, hoping to spur interest in tou...

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The interiors of two mosques at a sensitive Jerusalem holy site will be exempt from monitoring by security cameras, Jordan's king...

JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian rammed his vehicle into an Israeli police officer in the West Bank on Wednesday, seriously injuring him before he was s...

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) — Turkmenistan's rituals range from the bizarre to the brutal. The Central Asian nation has more marble buildings than any...

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — U.S. satellite systems detected heat around a Russian passenger jet before it crashed in Egypt and killed all 224 people...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Over a seven-decade career in politics, Shimon Peres has helped guide Israel through wars and existential threats. But now, with the ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian stabbed and wounded a 70-year-old man in northern Israel before being shot by officers, police said Monday just hours a...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — One of the most memorable images of the current Israeli-Palestinian confrontations shows a young Palestinian lawyer in dark...

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — The latest developments after a Russian passenger plane crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on bo...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's ruling party secured a stunning victory in Sunday's snap parliamentary election, sweeping back into single-party rule o...

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — The Russian jetliner that crashed shortly after takeoff from an Egyptian resort city broke up at high altitude, scatteri...

BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State militant group is advancing in central Syria, seizing control of a town that lies near a highway leading to the capita...

HPA-AN, Myanmar (AP) — During nearly seven decades the villages of the Karen have been torched, their men summarily executed and their women raped as ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Five of Somalia's Islamic extremists attacked a leading hotel in the capital at dawn Sunday, killing at least six people and inj...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The al-Zazas have much to celebrate these days, after returning a few weeks ago to their neighborhood in the Gaza Strip —...