Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is expressing alarm at "the weakening taboo" against using chemical weapons in Syria where an international watchdog agency says it is studying several recent cases of alleged use of the banned agents.
The International Monetary Fund has approved aid worth almost $180 million to Moldova ahead of a presidential runoff election that could see the impoverished former Soviet republic move closer to Europe or tilt toward Russia.
A former Bulgarian Air Force officer who has called on the European Union to lift its sanctions against Russia won the most votes in the country's presidential election, but not enough to avoid a runoff, according to results released Monday.
A U.S.-backed campaign to take the Syrian city of Raqqa from the Islamic State group is underway under the banner of the predominantly Kurdish Syria Democratic Forces (SDF).
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says recent political developments in Lebanon can be the key to breaking the deadlock in wars in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.
Kurdish officials deported a Japanese journalist on Monday whose work on fundamentalist movements and close relationship with extremists has often aggravated authorities.
Iraqi Kurdish fighters exchanged heavy fire with militants early on Monday as they advanced from two directions into a town held by the Islamic State group east of the city of Mosul.
When Iraqi forces pushed into Mosul's urban center last week, Derek Coleman, an American volunteer medic, was among those treating the wounded at a front-line field clinic.
Mikhail Saakashvili, the former Georgian president who became governor of Ukraine's Odessa region, announced Monday that he is resigning in frustration at what he characterized as obstruction in efforts to root out corruption.
The often foul-mouthed, combative president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, lashed out again at the United States by announcing he wanted to cancel a purchase of 26,000 American assault rifles meant to go to Filipino police.
