BEIRUT, LEBANON- The Islamic State group said Monday that a senior operative considered the group's information minister had been killed, confirming an earlier Pentagon report. An IS statement on...

PARIS, FRANCE, Cécile Feuillatre- French President Francois Hollande has not yet decided whether to meet Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Paris next week, after the Kremlin blocked a UN bid to end...

BEIRUT, LEBANON, Rouba El-Husseini- Syrian government forces Sunday kept up their blistering assault on rebel-held eastern Aleppo after a divided UN Security Council failed to agree on a truce to...

SANAA, YEMEN, Mohammed Huwais- The Saudi-led coalition fighting rebels in Yemen said Sunday it will investigate an air raid that killed more than 140 people at a funeral, after the US said it was...

BEIRUT, LEBANON, Sara Hussein- Before war broke out they were bakers, decorators or students. Now Syria's volunteer rescuers known as the White Helmets risk their lives trying to pull victims from...

UNITED NATIONS, UNITED STATES, Carole Landry with Karam al-Masri in Aleppo- Russia on Saturday vetoed a UN draft resolution demanding an end to the bombing of Aleppo, but its own rival measure on a...

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA, Rodrigo Almonacid- In a Colombia left deeply divided by a contested peace deal with the FARC rebels, not everyone was happy about President Juan Manuel Santos winning the Nobel...

UNITED NATIONS, UNITED STATES, Carole Landry- The UN Security Council will vote on two rival resolutions on Syria on Saturday, one drafted by France calling for an end to air raids on Aleppo and a...

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES, Dave Clark with Sara Hussein in Beirut- The United States declared Friday that the bombing of civilians in Aleppo could amount to a war crime, as the diplomatic battle over...