De-escalation zones in Syria are crucial for Syria's territorial integrity, the Russian president said Saturday on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. Vladimir Putin stressed Turkey’s importance in establishing de-escalation zones in certain areas of Syria’s. "The...

Arab refugees watching anti-G20 riots in Hamburg from the relative safety of a falafel joint said on Saturday the rioters were insane for destroying their tolerant adoptive city and were astonished by what they saw as the police's restraint. "If people did this in Egypt they would be shot,"...

Egyptian police officers have shot dead 16 gunmen in two shootouts, the country's Interior Ministry said on Saturday, adding that most of those killed were fugitive militants linked to recent attacks on security forces in Northern Sinai. Egypt faces an Islamist insurgency led by the Islamic...

Iraq will announce imminently a final victory in the nearly nine-month offensive to retake Mosul from jihadists, a US general said Saturday, as celebrations broke out among police forces in the city. The defeat would be the biggest yet for the Islamic State group three years since it seized...