Regime airstrikes on militant-controlled northwestern Syria Wednesday killed at least 14 civilians, including 5 women and 3 children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group and local activists reported. Seven of them, including 5 women, were killed in the...

Israel announced Wednesday it had tightened restrictions on Palestinian fishing off the blockaded Gaza Strip after more balloons fitted with firebombs were floated from the enclave into its territory. The zone it allows Gaza fishermen was reduced to a maximum of 10 nautical miles from 15,...

Another wave of regime air strikes on Tuesday struck a jihadist bastion in northwest Syria where more than 40 civilians have been killed in several days of heavy bombardment, a war monitor said. Four children were among 10 people killed on Tuesday in government fire on several towns in the...

Algerian media said Monday there was very little chance a presidential election will be held as planned on July 4, after only two candidates - both little known - submitted their candidacies. "The election ... will without any doubt be postponed or cancelled," the francophone El Watan daily...