WASHINGTON (dpa) - The United States on Sunday said it was "horrified" by the killing of seven rescue volunteers working in war-devastated Syria, calling them "brutal murders." Unknown gunmen killed...

BEIRUT (dpa) - Airstrikes against strongholds of the Islamic State terrorist group in al-Raqqa and Deir al-zour in Syria intensified in the past 24 hours, killing at least 23 people and wounding more...

KARLSRUHE, GERMANY (dpa)- A suspected member of Islamic State thought to have committed war crimes in his home country of Syria has been taken into custody in Germany, federal prosecutors said on...

CAIRO (dpa)– Syrian Kurdish rebels have handed over 17 Indonesians who had joined Islamic State in northern Syria to representatives of their government. The 17 were in al-Raqqa city in good health...

ISTANBUL (dpa)- Turkey is tightening control over the border crossing to Idlib province in north Syria, the customs minister said on Thursday, after jihadists took control of key areas recently, amid...

ROME (dpa) - The Libyan coastguard recovered more than 1,000 migrants floating in wooden and rubber boats in the Mediterranean Sea over the last few days and returned them to the Libyan coast. Since...

VIENNA, Sandra Walder and Johannes Schmitt-Tegge (dpa) - Former United Nations chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, 70, has expressed her frustration at the lack of progress in Syria as she prepares to...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Georg Ismar (dpa) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has condemned a Sunday attack on a military base in the country, calling it a "terror act on the armed forces." The early...

TEL AVIV, Eliyahu Kamisher and Ramadan Al-Fatash (dpa) - Israel has moved to revoke Al Jazeera journalists’ press credentials and remove the network’s broadcasts in Israel, Israeli Communications...