Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday said Syria was being "martyred" by continued attacks killing civilians in the eastern Ghouta district, calling for an immediate end to violence and access to humanitarian aid. "All this is inhuman," Francis told tens of thousands of people in St....

Former co-leader of PYD/PKK terrorist group Salih Muslim has been arrested in the Czech capital, said Turkish security officials on Sunday. Muslim was arrested in Prague on Saturday, said the officials on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to the media. The...

Three members of a pro-government militia were injured in a suicide bombing in Iraq’s oil-rich Kirkuk province on Sunday, according to a local police officer.   A bomber blew himself up near a headquarters of the Shia Hashd al-Shaabi militia in central Kirkuk, Capt. Hamed...

Turkish Armed Forces and Free Syrian Army (FSA) liberated five more villages on Sunday as part of Operation Olive Branch in northwestern Syria’s Afrin.  The villages of Shaykh Muhammad, Kunda Dudu, Samalik, "Velikli" and "Kavanda" in the Rajo area, located northwest of Afrin,...