Syrian Kurdish fighters and American forces have captured a senior member of the Islamic State group, a militant described as one of its “key facilitators," the force said Friday. Mahmdouh Ibrahim al-Haji, also known as Abu Youssef, was taken into custody on Thursday in the northern Syrian...

Six female migrants trapped inside a refrigerated food truck were rescued by French police after one of the women was able to make contact with a reporter, the BBC and French authorities said Thursday. The women — four Vietnamese and two Iraqis — hid for hours in a truck loaded with...

Viral hepatitis is sweeping the Al-Shajara district in the Yarmouk Basin area in the southern Daraa province It began appearing about a month ago, due to contamination of drinking water, threatening the lives of more than 30,000 civilians there. Not a house in the region was free of...

BERLIN (AP) — Dozens of people from around the world lined up on a sunny morning this week in front of a former mental health hospital in Berlin to apply for asylum in Germany. There were two older women from Moldova. A young man from Somalia sat next to them on a bench. A group of five...