A fifth round of talks on ending the six-year Syrian conflict began in Kazakhstan on Tuesday amid key rebel groups boycott, focused on shoring up a plan for safe zones in the war-torn country. "All the delegations that plan to participate in this important stage of the talks have arrived,"...

( Sky News )- Sally Jones - the former punk rocker who became the leading female recruitment officer for IS, married a now-dead jihadist and took her son to Raqqa - wants to come home to Britain, it has been claimed. That is, at least, the view of 'Aisha', the wife of another immigrant to...

Algeria plans to grant residency rights and job permits to illegal African migrants, responding to a shortage of workers in farming and construction while also seeking to combat a surge in racist sentiment. Prime Minister Abdelmadjid Tebboune's plan follows the launch of an anonymous online...

The captain of a Turkish freighter said on Monday that the Greek coast guard had fired on his vessel after he refused an order to dock at a port on the Greek island of Rhodes. Turkey said the action was "disproportionate" and showed no regard for human life. "There is no justification...