NEW YORK, Helen Corbett (dpa) - The UN's human rights inquiry into Syria on Thursday called on countries fighting Islamic State to rescue Yezidi captives still missing three years after being taken...

BEIRUT, Weedah Hamzah (dpa) - Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah said Friday that Islamic State will be defeated in Syria and Lebanon and that his movement will attack the extremist group...

CAIRO, Nehal El-Sherif (dpa) - Jordan's lower house of parliament repealed a law on Tuesday that allowed rapists to escape punishment by marrying their victims, according to the official news agency...

WASHINGTON, Anne K Walters (dpa) - US President Donald Trump signed a measure that imposes sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea on Wednesday, despite concerns that it is "seriously flawed." The...

BEIRUT, Weedah Hamzah (dpa) – Trapped civilians in the north-eastern Syrian city of al-Raqqa, Islamic State's de facto capital, have almost no access to medical care and are at risk of epidemics, aid...

DAMASCUS (dpa) - A Russian television reporter was killed on Sunday in an Islamic State attack in central Syria, media and military sources reported. Syrian state news agency SANA reported that...

BEIRUT, Fadia Azar (dpa) – Hezbollah and a Syrian al-Qaeda affiliate on Sunday began exchanging bodies of fighters killed in recent clashes in a Lebanese area on the border with Syria as part of a...

MOSCOW/WASHINGTON (dpa) - The US State Department on Sunday labelled an announcement by Russian President Vladimir Putin to expel American diplomats from Russia as "regrettable and uncalled for,"...

BEIRUT (dpa) - The pro-Iranian Shiite movement Hezbollah announced a ceasefire on all fronts at the outskirts of Arsal in north-eastern Lebanon on Thursday. "A ceasefire will go into effect on all...