William Hague

Gaza City -- Rockets and shells crisscrossed the skies over southern Israel and Gaza on Thursday as Palestinian militants continued rocket attacks on Israeli civilians and Israel pounded what it called terror sites. Israel reported three people killed....

LONDON -- A policeman in London appears to have accidentally revealed an arrest plan for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, in what UK media have branded an embarrassing slip-up by London's Metropolitan Police. The photo, snapped by the Press...

Ecuador granted Julian Assange asylum over fears of political persecution Thursday, but it was hardly a reprieve as Britain vowed to extradite the WikiLeaks founder to Sweden to face questioning on sex crime charges. Assange, whose website has...

The U.N. Security Council has reportedly delayed a vote on a new Syria resolution in the wake of a bombing in the Syrian capital, Damascus, that killed at least two members of the defense leadership....

WASHINGTON, DC -- President Barack Obama has signed a covert directive authorizing U.S. support for Syrian rebels battling President Bashar al-Assad's forces, U.S. officials told CNN on Wednesday. The secret order, referred to as an intelligence...

Britain said it would offer an additional $7.8 million in assistance to the opposition in Syria. The aid would not involve arms but rather communications and medical equipment....

The British foreign secretary said Tuesday that a Russian ship carrying refurbished attack helicopters had turned back from Syria, after a British company stripped the ship of its insurance....

Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Syria amid a flurry of diplomatic activity following the massacre of more than 100 people -- most of them women and children -- in the town of Houla....

Governments in Europe and elsewhere announced that they were expelling top Syrian diplomats in a coordinated response to last week's deaths of more than 100 people in a Syrian town....

Hope isn't a strategy. But it was a major part of NATO's decision to launch an air war against Libya's Moammar Kadafi almost three months ago. Back in March, when the bombing began, the leaders of France, Britain and the United States hoped Kadafi's...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Twin suicide car bombs exploded outside a military intelligence building and killed 55 people Thursday, tossing mangled bodies in the street in the deadliest attack against a regime target since the Syrian uprising began 14...

Fresh violence in Syria on Monday added to the frustration there and around the world that attacks have not ceased since the regime and rebels agreed to halt their fire....