Middle East

A Pakistani court Saturday handed four death sentences to a man charged with raping and murdering a young girl, in…

Syrian Kurdish forces and a monitoring group said the Turkish military carried out a suspected gas attack that wounded six…

Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the Iranian-backed movement Hezbollah, urged Lebanon’s government Friday to stand firm against Israel, with force if…

The top United Nations human rights official called on Iran on Friday to halt executions of young people convicted of…

About 300 men working for a Kremlin-linked Russian private military firm were either killed or injured in Syria last week,…

After a week of unanswered questions, Russia acknowledged Thursday that five of its citizens may have been killed by a…

Since the International Criminal Court began collecting material three months ago for a possible war crimes case involving Afghanistan, it…

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Thursday the United States and Turkey are having an open dialogue about their growing…

In a rambling nearly 3,000-word letter issued Wednesday, the Taliban urged the “American people” to press their government to withdraw…

International donors pledged $30 billion to help rebuild Iraq after the war against the Islamic State group, Kuwait announced Wednesday,…