Talks aimed at ending a 40-year-old militant conflict have fostered peace hopes in Turkey but the precarious situation of ...

I left you for God, Daddy.” Let those words resonate across the planet. The speaker is Yahya Al-Batran, a Palestinian man – a dad – imagining the words ...

Saudi Arabia and others are overlooking the new leadership’s jihadist past, hoping to gain an advantage on rivals in the ...

The FBI also said Jabbar traveled to New Orleans twice before, apparently to surveil the Bourbon Street area. Some observers, ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to outgoing CIA Director Bill Burns about the handling of Russia, the Mideast, and security threats during his tenure, plus what lies ahead for the intel community.

Assad's regime in Syria has created significant instability in the Middle East, particularly affecting Kurdish forces and ...

William Bratton once ran the New York City and Los Angeles police forces. Now he's been hired to help New Orleans better ...

The U.S. military has waged a series of large strikes on the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria and Iraq over the past month in what appears to be an uptick in the decade-long campaign against the ...

A senior Israeli official says the government is working with allies in a renewed push to win the freedom of an ...

The United States appears intent on keeping its counterterrorism alliance with the Kurds in post-Assad Syria despite the ...

The terrorist attack in New Orleans serves as a grim reminder that the group is still able to transform personal crises into ...

As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia ...