Two Germans have been kidnapped while working at an archaeological site in northern Nigeria, police said Thursday. "I can confirm to you the abduction of two Germans at Jenjela village in southern Kaduna on Wednesday," state police spokesman Usman Aliyu told AFP. Aliyu said the men had...

Syrian warplanes carried out air strikes on rebel-held areas in Deraa and Hama provinces and insurgents fired rockets at government targets on Thursday, the day peace talks are set to begin in Geneva, a war monitoring group said. However, the overall level of violence in western Syria was...

Five European parliamentarians said Wednesday that Israeli authorities had prevented them from entering the Gaza Strip. “The refusal of access to Gaza by the Israeli authorities to the European Parliament on arbitrary grounds is unacceptable,” Cypriot MEP Neoklis Sylikiotis declared in a...

U.S.-backed Iraqi security forces closing in on the ISIS-held western half of Mosul stormed the city's main airport and a nearby military base Thursday, state television said. "Rapid response forces, federal police and anti-terrorism forces stormed Mosul airport... and an al-Ghazlani...