No fewer than 17 villagers were killed in an attack by armed bandits in northwestern Nigeria, police said late Sunday. The Zamfara State Police Command confirmed the death of 17 people in the village of Magami in Faru, Maradun after an attack by suspected armed bandits who stormed the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's regime head Bashar al-Assad on Sunday issued a decree raising the salaries of military personnel and the pensions of retired military personnel, in a second rise in six months, the state-run news agency said. The military pilots, who conducted thousands of...

Spain's maritime rescue service says two children were reported missing at sea when 69 migrants were taken from a rubber dinghy in the Mediterranean Sea. The service says people on the boat told a rescue crew the boys hadn't been seen for several hours and were presumed dead....

Syrian regime's security services chief Ali Mamlouk held talks with Egyptian officials in Cairo over the weekend on a rare visit to the country, Syrian state-run news agency said Sunday. His Saturday visit came "at the invitation of" Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel, the official...