Syria’s key Islamist groups of Ahrar al-Sham has merged with Suqour al-Sham in one rebel group on Sunday, the leaders said in video statement posted online. ‘Battalions of S uqour al-Sham’ to be the name of the newly-born Islamic faction,...

  Syrian rebels have captured several government airmen after their helicopter crashed in a rebel-held area of the country's northwest, activists have said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday that four crew members...

Bukavu (DR Congo) (AFP) - Perched on a shelf, the "Little Kabila" with the mysterious eyes greets visitors to the Kivu Museum, housed in a Catholic mission but aimed at safeguarding endangered Congolese traditional artefacts some might consider "satanic". The statuette showing a woman...

Tunis (AFP) - Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi says security "failures" had helped facilitate the attack on the country's national museum claimed by the Islamic State group that left 20 foreign tourists dead. Twenty-one people, all but one of them foreign tourists, were killed when two...