A Dutch court has found two men guilty of preparing to travel to Syria to fight with rebels battling to oust President Bashar Assad, verdicts prosecutors say will help other such cases in the future. Wednesday's convictions by a court in Rotterdam are the first in the Netherlands...

At least eight Tunisian policemen and two Islamist militants were killed on Wednesday when they clashed during a raid by security forces in Sidi Bouzid in the south of the country, security sources and state television said. Tunisian authorities say Ansar al-Sharia, one of the...

A 15-year-old Yemeni girl has been burned to death for allegedly meeting her fiancé before their wedding, police said on Tuesday, adding that her father was the chief suspect. Prosecutors are to press charges against the 35-year-old over the death of his daughter in the village of...

Syria has long claimed that its chemical weapons were a deterrent against Israel, but analysts say the real target was Syrians, so their dismantling by the United Nations will not change the regional balance of power. “Syria’s chemical weapons were never a credible deterrence,”...