Iraq's elite counter-terrorism force targeted Daesh (ISIS) holdouts Thursday in the northern region of Hamreen, including a media center, more than a year after the country declared Daesh vanquished. Although they no longer hold territory, Daesh sleeper cells were believed to be...

Strongmen in the Middle East and North Africa will be eyeing warily popular protests, fed by frustration with living standards and an elite perceived as corrupt, that helped push veteran Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika and now Sudan?s Omar al-Bashir from power. While recent events...

The Israeli army rounded up 19 Palestinians in overnight raids carried out across the occupied West Bank, according to a military statement released Thursday. In a statement, the army said that the individuals had been detained for “suspected involvement in popular hostile activities”....

They trekked through the Sahara in hope of crossing the Mediterranean to a better life in Europe - but instead ended up in squalid detention centers and are now engulfed by war. Thousands of African and Syrian migrants and refugees are trapped in Tripoli as a battle for the city draws...