Agra, India | AFP | India has boosted security at the Taj Mahal after a pro-Islamic State group reportedly warned of attacks in the country and threatened the 17th century monument to love, police...

Up to 1,000 additional U.S. troops could deploy to northern Syria under provisional plans drawn up by the Pentagon, a US defense official told AFP on Wednesday.       The plans, which...

Sanaa, Yemen | AFP | A warplane firing missiles. A gunman taking aim. A map of Yemen dripping with blood. A group of Yemeni artists took to the streets Wednesday, painting murals on the wall of...

Istanbul, Turkey | AFP | Turkey on Wednesday threatened to scrap a critical deal on halting the flow of migrants to the EU amid a spiralling war of words between Ankara and the bloc. Turkish...

Damascus, Syria | AFP | Two suicide bombings hit the Syrian capital Damascus on Wednesday, including an attack at a central courthouse that killed at least 32 people, as the country's war entered...

After the fourth round of Syrian peace talks drew to a close last week, I left Geneva with a heavy heart. Much more could have been accomplished if the Syrian regime had come to the table prepared to...

BERLIN, GERMANY- Germany's justice minister proposed a law Tuesday that could see social networks such as Facebook slapped with heavy fines if they fail to wipe illegal hate speech from their sites....

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES- President Donald Trump's revamped travel ban faced another legal challenge Friday when the American Civil Liberties Union filed a complaint on behalf of several refugee...

Ankara, Turkey | AFP | Turkey condemned Friday a UN report as "biased" after it accused Turkish security forces of committing serious abuses during operations against Kurdish militants in the...