Texas has more than 1.2 million licensed handgun owners who can openly carry their weapons in public. The state hosted the National Rifle Association's annual meeting two weeks ago. And until Monday, the governor's re-election website was raffling off a shotgun. Guns are so hard-wired...

(DW)- Over 1,000 Islamists have left Germany to aid terror groups in Syria and Iraq, a report cites the government as saying. And it says more than half of them hold German passports. The German government knows of more than 1,000 Islamists who have left Germany for Syria or Iraq to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-backed Syrian forces pressed new advances against Daesh in Deir Ezzor province, on Sunday, activists said. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), backed by the U.S. and French artillery have seized strategic hilltop near al-Hajeen town, the key stronghold of...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union (PYD) launched wide conscription campaign, chasing Kurdish and Arab youth in Raqqa and Hasaka provinces who refuse to join the militia, activists said. Activist Mahmoud al-Ahmed said YPG, the armed wing of PYD, had set up...