BONN, GERMANY, Michelle FITZPATRICK- US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday faces a grilling by global peers seeking clarity about Washington's position on the Syria conflict ahead of crunch...

AZRAQ REFUGEE CAMP, Mussa Hattar with Mouhammed Ali Ahmad in east Lebanon- Almost six years into a war that has devastated their country, Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon say they expect nothing...

ARBIL, IRAQ, Marisol Rifai with Jean-Marc Mojon in Baghdad- As the noose tightens around holdout jihadists in west Mosul, so does the belt around the waists of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi...

BEIRUT, LEBANON- Syria's opposition on Sunday announced its 21-member delegation, including 10 rebel representatives, for a new round of UN-sponsored peace talks in Geneva scheduled for February 20....

RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA- "Islamophobia" in parts of the world is fuelling terrorism, the head of the United Nations said on a visit to Saudi Arabia Sunday, as anti-immigrant sentiment rises in some...

RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA- The heir to Saudi Arabia's throne has been awarded a medal by the new director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, who honoured his counter-terrorism work. Mike Pompeo, on...

SOFIA, BULGARIA- A Bulgarian court ordered the extradition of a Dutch woman suspected of trying to join the Islamic State group in Syria last month. The 33-year-old woman was detained on a European...

UNITED NATIONS, UNITED STATES- France and Britain said Tuesday the US-led coalition battling the Islamic State group must press on and re-take Raqa as President Donald Trump mulled a new strategy to...

BEIRUT, LEBANON- Syria's opposition on Tuesday demanded international observers be allowed access to regime-run detention centres, after an Amnesty International investigation into mass hangings at a...