Middle East

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — A security clampdown and a strike sponsored by separatists fighting against Indian rule shut most of…

MEKELLE, Ethiopia (Reuters) – In the birthplace of the armed struggle that propelled Ethiopia’s ruling coalition to power 27 years…

  Masked for centuries by the soot of candles and lately by scaffolding, the mosaics of Bethlehem’s Church of the…

  BEIRUT (AP) — A US military official says fighting against the Islamic State group in its last enclave in…

  KABUL (Reuters) – China pledged to help Afghanistan and Pakistan overcome longstanding suspicions, as officials from the three nations…

  ISTANBUL (Reuters) – One of the killers of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was heard saying “I know how to…

  Australia now recognizes west Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Saturday, but a contentious embassy shift…

  ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish forces will enter the Syrian town of Manbij if the United States does not remove…

  Kurdish-dominated forces backed by air strikes by a US-led coalition retook full control of a key jihadist hub in…

  At the Tanjai Cheena school in northwest Pakistan students squeeze into makeshift classrooms where plastic tarps serve as walls…