war and unrest

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The leaders of South Korea, China and Japan will meet Sunday for their first summit talks in more than three years as the No...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A small number of U.S. special operations forces will be sent to northern Syria to work with local troops in the fight against Islam...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States escalated its fight against the Islamic State in Syria on Friday, pledging the first open deployment of military b...

VIENNA (AP) — The United States, Russia and other regional and world powers considered a new plan Friday to set up a cease-fire in Syria within four t...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A Palestinian stabbed and wounded a man at a station of Jerusalem's light rail Friday before he was shot dead by police, se...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Twenty years after Yitzhak Rabin was gunned down by a Jewish extremist opposed to his negotiations with the Palestinians, Isra...

VIENNA (AP) — The success or failure of the Syrian peace talks this week is tied to the fate of one man who's not even at the table: President Bashar ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — As extremist violence and political uncertainty cast a shadow over Turkey, voters are looking for Sunday's parliamentary election to u...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces on Thursday shot and killed two Palestinians, including one who stabbed a soldier, Israeli authorities said, the lates...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister lashed out at an Arab lawmaker Wednesday for flouting a directive and visiting the sensitive Jerusalem holy s...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian troops have rescued 338 captives, almost all children and women, from Boko Haram camps in a northeastern forest, the mi...

MINGORA, Pakistan (AP) — As the death toll in the massive earthquake that struck the remote Hindu Kush mountains soared above 300, officials on both s...

BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State group killed three of its captives in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra by tying them to Roman-era columns at the site, ...

BEIRUT (AP) — A Norwegian humanitarian group says that up to 100,000 Syrians have been displaced in the last three weeks by the recent surge in fighti...

PARIS (AP) — A Nazi hunter couple renowned for documenting all 76,000 French Jews deported in World War II and tracking down Nazis for prosecution wer...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — President Bashar Assad is willing to run in an early presidential election, hold parliamentary elections and discuss constituti...

JERUSALEM (AP) — John Kerry's latest Mideast mission has aimed for the modest goal of easing tensions around Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site — th...

LONDON (AP) — Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has acknowledged that the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 was partly responsible for the emer...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Muslim prayers at a major Jerusalem shrine, the epicenter of weeks of unrest, ended peacefully Friday after Israel lifted r...

LATAKIA, Syria (AP) — Nearly a month of Russian airstrikes in Syria has boosted morale at a refugee camp in a suburb of this coastal city, where resid...