Syrian raids hit Red Cross hospital in the neighborhood of al-Sakhour in Aleppo, leaving four wounded, activists said Tuesday. The barrel-bomb attack on the only active hospital in the eastern district of Aleppo has left  major damage as big part of the building had turned to rubble,...

Ultra-radical Islamic State insurgents have killed at least 2,154 people off the battlefield in Syria since the end of June when the group declared a caliphate in territory it controls, a Syrian human rights monitor said on Tuesday. The killings of mostly Syrians included deaths by beheading,...

The Nigerian army said Tuesday that at least 200 girls and 93 women have been rescued from the notorious Sambisa forest, a Boko Haram stronghold. "Troops this afternoon rescued 200 girls and 93 women from Sambisa forest," the defense headquarters said on Twitter. "We cannot confirm if the...

 The last group of Peshmerga Kurdish forces fighting Daesh in Kobani are set to leave, now the Syrian city is free of the terrorist organization, the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs has announced. A total of 124 Peshmerga Kurdish troops will head back to Iraq on Tuesday night or...