Algeria's election authority has registered 22 candidates for a December presidential election, including two former prime ministers under former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the official APS agency reported Sunday. Former premiers Ali Benflis and Abdelmadjid Tebboune had submitted their...

The shadowy leader of the Islamic State group who presided over its global jihad and became arguably the world's most wanted man, is dead after being targeted by a U.S. military raid in Syria, President Donald Trump said Sunday. "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead," Trump announced at the...

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said Sunday it agreed to re-deploy away from the Syria-Turkey border, in accordance with an agreement brokered by Russia in Sochi earlier this week. The Kurdish-led SDF said Syrian regimet forces will deploy along the border. It called on Russia to...

Clashes in northeast Syria between pro-Ankara fighters backed by the Turkish air force and regime-backed Kurdish forces left 16 dead on Saturday, a monitor said. Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told AFP that nine pro-Turkish fighters and six members...