More than 900 migrants were rescued in four separate operations in the Strait of Sicily on Saturday and emergency services recovered one corpse, Italy's coast guard said. Now into the second year of its worst migration crisis since World War Two, Europe has seen more than 1.2...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army fighters took three villages from the Islamic State in northern Aleppo province near the Turkish border, local reporter said on Saturday. The moderate rebels have seized control of al-Jakka, al-Kamaliya and Mrigel in the last 48 hours. Meanwhile, the rallies...

  Dozens of people were killed in a series of air strikes on the city of Raqqa in northern Syria on Saturday, a monitoring group and activists said, as Damascus and Moscow waged attacks on areas controlled by Islamic State. A cessation of hostilities in Syria took effect three...

39 civilians killed in raids on Syria's Raqqa: activist (AFP)