A Tunisian soldier opened fire on colleagues at a military base in the capital Tunis on Monday, killing an officer and 6 others and wounding 15 more before being shot dead himself, Tunisian authorities said. It was not immediately clear what had triggered the shooting at the Bouchoucha...

 Syrian rebel forces are using Nazi-era artillery weapons, most likely looted from the stocks of President Bashar al-Assad’s army. In a video posted online this week, fighters from the armed opposition group Ahrar al-Sham can be seen loading a dusty howitzer during an attack on Ariha,...

  The Islamic State group has executed at least 217 people, including civilians, in the nine days since it captured areas in Syria's Homs province including the ancient city of Palmyra, a monitor said Sunday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had documented the executions of...

The Islamic State group has executed 16 Iraqi traders taking food from the city of Baiji to the government-controlled western city of Haditha, officials said Sunday. "Daesh executed 16 Haditha traders last night," the mayor of the city, Abdelhakim al-Jughaifi, told AFP by phone. "The victims...