The number of refugees arriving in Germany in December has more than halved from the previous month, according to statistics from the German federal police obtained by Reuters Monday. The decline is probably due to bad weather in the Aegean Sea, the main crossing point for migrants to Europe,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 9 people killed in Idlib, Aleppo and Damascus provinces as Russia intensifies its devastating aerial campaign on rebel-held areas across Syria for nearly three months. The Syrian Network for Human Rights reported Monday the death of 9 civilians, including 3 women and...

Tunisia said on Monday it has dismantled a cell in the northern region of Bizerte recruiting women to marry militants fighting abroad and has made four arrests. The interior ministry said in a statement that anti-terrorist units led the operation to bust the “takfiri” radical Sunni Muslim...

 ISIS militants are preventing civilians from leaving Ramadi ahead of an attack planned by the Iraqi army to retake the western city that the militants captured in May, an Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman said Monday. "There are families that managed to escape the gangs of Daesh," the...