BEIRUT, Weedah Hamzah (dpa) - US-backed Syrian forces said Friday they had captured the Old City of al-Raqqa, the de facto capital of the Islamic State group in the war-torn country. The Syrian...

GENEVA/BEIRUT, Albert Otti, Weedah Hamzah and Shabtai Gold (dpa) - Foreign forces that fight Islamic State extremists in the northern Syrian city of al-Raqqa fail to avoid civilian deaths, forgetting...

IDLIB, SYRIA, Shabtai Gold and Weedah Hamza (dpa)- After an al-Qaeda-linked group took control over most of Syria's Idlib province, residents are facing a series of new challenges, including strict...

BEIRUT, Weedah Hamzah (dpa) - A US-led coalition strike on Wednesday has delayed the movement of buses carrying Islamic State militants heading to the hardline group's stronghold in eastern Syria, a...

NEW YORK, Helen Corbett (dpa) - The international community "cannot hold its head up high" while an estimated 27 people are killed in the campaign to retake al-Raqqa every day, the United Nations'...

NEW YORK, Helen Corbett (dpa) – The UN Security Council on Tuesday strongly condemned the latest North Korean missile launch as "outrageous" and urged Pyongyang to take concrete actions to defuse...

ROME (dpa)- A 37-year-old Moroccan held in an Italian prison has been forcibly repatriated after he was overheard backing Islamist causes and discussing terrorist actions. The man hailed the 2015...

TEL AVIV, Eliyahu Kamisher (dpa) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a scathing criticism of the United Nations on Monday as the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres began his first...

BEIRUT (dpa)- A convoy of buses carrying around 400 Islamic State militants and their families moved from Syria's western Qalamoun region on Monday towards the jihadist movement's stronghold of Deir...