(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 12 civilians have been killed in Russian air strikes hit rebel-held neighborhoods of the northern city of Aleppo, local reporter said Tuesday. The air strikes have targeted Aleppo's most populous neighborhoods of Bustan al Qasr and al Mashhad, leaving 12 people killed...

Gunmen have kidnapped a minister in Libya's Tripoli-based government, parliament said on Tuesday, and accused a group linked to its own interior minister of being behind the abduction. The security and defence commission of the General National Congress (GNC) said in a statement that it...

 Fifteen migrants suffering from hypothermia were found alive in the back of a refrigerated lorry in northern France after a blind search by emergency services triggered by a call from one of the trapped men. The authorities said they received a "strange call" around 0800 GMT from "a man...

Warplanes pounded ISIS's de facto Syrian capital Raqqa on Tuesday, killing at least 23 people including 13 militants, activists said. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that either Syrian or Russian warplanes are believed to have carried out the strikes. "Thirteen...