More than 11,000 foreign women and children related to Isis suspects are being held in “appalling” and “deadly conditions” in a locked desert camp in northeast Syria, a leading human rights organisation has warned. Human Rights Watch found overflowing latrines, sewage seeping into...

Spain's caretaker prime minister has failed on the first of two opportunities this week to win the endorsement of the national Parliament to form a government. Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez fell short of the absolute majority of 176 votes of the 350-member lower house needed to win...

Iraqi security forces are sweeping villages and farmland north of Baghdad as part of an operation aimed at clearing remaining militants belonging to the Islamic State group from around the country's capital. A military helicopter flew over army units in the area as troops on the ground...

Israeli forces rounded up nine Palestinians in overnight raids carried out across the occupied West Bank, according to the military on Tuesday.  A military statement said the individuals had been arrested for “suspected involvement in popular terror activities", without elaborating...