DAMASCUS, SYRIA- A US warning that it would use its air power to defend Pentagon-trained rebels against Syrian troops was met with scepticism by officials in Damascus on Tuesday. The US-backed...

ISTANBUL, TURKEY- Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday asked for jail sentences of up to seven and a half years for 18 journalists on charges of making propaganda for a terrorist group after publishing a...

PARIS, FRANCE, Marianne Barriaux- Technical experts in France were to begin examining a washed-up plane part on Wednesday that almost certainly belonged to missing flight MH370, raising hopes that...

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, Madeleine Coorey- Deborah Brown has danced at the Sydney Opera House and on other famous stages around the world, but performances on the dirt of remote Australian Aboriginal...

JALAZON REFUGEE CAMP, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES, Hossam Ezzedine- The parents and brother of a Palestinian toddler burned to death by suspected Jewish extremists were fighting for their lives Saturday,...

BEIRUT, LEBANON, Maya Gebeily- Al-Qaeda's Syria affiliate launched a fierce assault on the headquarters of a US-trained rebel group Friday, while claiming responsibility for capturing members of the...

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN, Anuj Chopra- The Taliban on Thursday confirmed the death of their elusive leader Mullah Omar, paving the way for the first transition of power for the fractious militant movement...

ISTANBUL, TURKEY- Turkish protesters battled security forces on Sunday in intense clashes in a flashpoint Istanbul district where a leftist activist was killed during police raids earlier this week,...

BAGHDAD, IRAQ- Iraqi government forces recaptured a university campus Sunday on the outskirts of Ramadi from the Islamic State group, seizing a key position for any offensive to retake the city,...