BEIRUT, LEBANON, Rana Moussaoui- Rebels and jihadists battled pro-government forces in the central Syrian province of Hama Thursday as the country's UN envoy warned that more people could be forcibly...
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, Nina Larson with Thibauld Malterre in Paris- Evidence is growing that Russia is behind a significant increase in the use of cluster bombs in Syria, campaigners said Thursday. A...
ANKARA, TURKEY- Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday dismissed claims that a Syrian Kurdish militia had retreated east of the Euphrates River in northern Syria following Turkish strikes...
NASIRIYAH, IRAQ- Iraq on Wednesday hanged seven men of various Arab nationalities who were convicted of belonging to the Al-Qaeda network, officials said. The seven were detained more than four years...
MARANELLO, ITALY- Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed Wednesday to step up efforts to send migrants with no right to asylum in Europe back to their...
BEIRUT, LEBANON- Kurdish-backed militias in Syria agreed Tuesday to a US initiative to stop fighting Turkish forces whose week-old incursion in the country has stoked tensions between Washington and...
BEIRUT, LEBANON- The Islamic State group said Tuesday its spokesman Abu Mohamed al-Adnani was killed in the Syrian province of Aleppo, as the US confirmed it had targeted him in the same area....
SIRTE, LIBYA, Mahmud Turkia- Pro-government forces in Libya on Monday cornered the Islamic State group in one neighbourhood of Sirte, after two days of deadly fighting for the jihadists' last...
ISTANBUL, TURKEY, Stuart Williams and Fulya Ozerkan- Turkey warned Monday it would carry out more strikes on a US-backed Kurdish militia in Syria if it fails to retreat, as Washington said President...
BERLIN, GERMANY- The refusal of some EU countries to accept Muslim refugees is "unacceptable", Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday as Germany called for quotas to divide the influx throughout the...