The Syrian regime army pushed Daesh (ISIS) militants out of a south Damascus pocket Monday, effectively clearing all insurgents from around the capital, state television said. Pro-regime forces have been battling for weeks to recover al-Hajar al-Aswad district and the adjacent Yarmouk...

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas remained in hospital Monday, a spokeswoman said, a day after being admitted with complications following an ear operation. A spokeswoman for the Istishari Arab Hospital near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank said the 83-year-old was doing well but...

(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...

Daesh (ISIS) claimed responsibility for an attack on a church in Russia's Chechnya republic that killed three people, the group's Amaq news agency said Sunday. The group offered no evidence in support of the claim. Four people attacked the Orthodox church on Saturday, killing...