Fatah Army in the northern province of Idlib has captured a strategic hill near Jisr al-Shughour town on Sunday, a move that makes rebels on the track to overrun Bashar al-Assad's hometown in the coastal region. The alliance of Islamist groups, who has slowed its progress in the last few weeks,...

Around 19 people have been killed and 80 wounded in heavy clashes between Libyan soldiers and Islamist fighters in the eastern city of Benghazi in the past three days, medics said on Saturday. Forces loyal to Libya's internationally recognized government have been fighting...

Madrid (AFP) - Spain captain Iker Casillas spent a glorious quarter-century at Real Madrid but hit a rough patch in his last years at his boyhood club which sold him Saturday to FC Porto. In 2010 Casillas, now 34, made front pages worldwide in a photograph of him raising the World Cup...

Skeptical euro zone finance ministers demanded on Saturday that Greece go beyond painful austerity measures accepted by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras if he wants them to open negotiations on a third bailout for his bankrupt country to keep it in the euro. Ministers lined up to...