ANBAR, IRAQ, Ahmed al-Delmi (dpa)- Iraqi forces on Sunday started a massive operation against the remnants of the Islamic State militant group near the border with Syria, a senior military official...

BEIRUT, Weedah Hamzah (dpa) - The UN special envoy for Syria arrived in Damascus Tuesday for talks with senior Syrian officials regarding the formation of a constitutional committee and ways to end...

JERUSALEM, Tracy Wilkinson and Noga Tarnopolsky, Los Angeles Times (tca/dpa)- Beaming and triumphant, David Friedman, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, presided last week over a Fourth of July gala -...

BERLIN, Michael Fischer (dpa)- Mixed signals have trickled out of Berlin about how Germany will respond to a US request for Germany to support the fight against Islamic State with ground troops in...

DAMASCUS (dpa)- Omani Foreign Minister Youssef bin Alawi arrived in Damascus to meet Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday, Syria's official news agency SANA and an Omani source reported. The...

Hong Kong - Hundreds of protesters clutching umbrellas attempted to break into Hong Kong's legislature on Monday afternoon as riot police fired pepper spray to fend them off.   The group was a...

Vienna - Senior diplomats from five major powers are meeting their Iranian counterparts in Vienna on Friday in an attempt to stop Tehran from abandoning their joint nuclear deal.   The United...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who chairs this year’s G20 summit, is keen to play a leading role in climate change at the meeting. Japan however, has been harshly criticized for building more...

Tripoli – Forces loyal to Libya's UN-backed government on Wednesday retook control of the town of Gharyan, south of Tripoli, which is a base of the eastern forces that are attacking the capital....