By Nour Malas ( The Wall Street Journal )-  On the glittering Bosporus strait, a boat outfitted to look like an old Damascus neighborhood offers Syrians living in Turkey a wistful taste of home. To the beat of drums and folkloric processions, Syrians looking to escape from the...

Daesh (ISIS) fighters launched a string of counterattacks in a western Mosul neighborhood that had recently been declared free of the militant group, setting off clashes that continued overnight, Iraqi officials said Monday. By daylight, the situation was calm and the fighting had subsided,...

The battle to take full control of Mosul from Islamic State will be over in a few days and an attempted fight-back by the militants failed, an Iraqi general told Reuters on Monday. "Only a small part remains in the city, specifically the Old City," said Lieutenant General Abdul Ghani...

A gunman paused for a moment after entering an internet cafe in the Yemeni port city of Aden, approached Amgad Abdulrahman and pulled the trigger three times. As the 22-year-old law student -- a member of a cultural club set up by secularists -- lay dying, the gunman waved his pistol...