The attacks came one after the other in the space of a few hours. In France, a decapitated body covered in Arabic writing was found after an attacker rammed his car into a gas container, triggering an explosion. In Kuwait, a suicide bomber blew himself up in a packed Shi'ite mosque during...

Islamic State fighters killed at least 145 civilians in an attack on the Syrian town of Kobani and a nearby village, in what a monitoring group described on Friday as the second worst massacre carried out by the hardline group in Syria. Fighting between the Kurdish YPG militia and Islamic State...

Oil prices fell on Friday as investors awaited the outcome of Iranian nuclear talks which could lead to a big increase in Iranian crude exports at a time when the market is already over-supplied. Dealers also kept an eye on negotiations to try to avert a Greek debt default and avoid Greece's...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A new leaked document from the lot published on WikiLeaks, shows that relationship between Bashar al-Assad and Farouk al-Sharaa worsened after the Syrian revolution, as he had expressed his opinion in what had been happening in the country during his meeting with...