At least 15 African migrants died Sunday when their boat trying to reach Europe capsized off the Algerian coast, a coast guard official said. Coast guard and civil protection authorities rescued 19 of 34 people on board, state news agency APS said. The boat sank off the coast of...
The Syrian army said on Sunday it had captured a string of villages from U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) east of the Euphrates river near the border with Iraq where Kurdish-led forces are in control, state television said. The U.S.-backed proxy forces spearheaded by the...
The Syrian regime and rebels have reached a deal to evacuate opposition fighters from an area of southern Damascus near the site of a regime offensive against militants, state media said Sunday. The announcement comes more than a week into a regime assault to oust Daesh (ISIS) fighters...