President Bashar al-Assad has appeared on the Syrian currency for the first time, his portrait printed on a new 2,000-pound banknote that went into circulation on Sunday. Central bank governor Duraid Durgham said the 2,000-pound note was one of several new notes printed years ago but the...

A drone strike likely to have been carried out by the United States killed two suspected Al-Qaeda members in southern Yemen, a security official said on Sunday. The attack took place on Saturday night in Wadhie, a region in the southern province of Abyan, the official said. One of the...

Taliban militants ambushed and killed 13 members of an anti-militant militia in a mosque in northern Afghanistan, officials confirmed on Sunday. The incident took place a day earlier in the remote village of Haji Nadir in the restive Chamtal district, in the Balkh province bordering...

France and its African partners must work together to wipe out Islamist militants in the volatile Sahel region, President Emmanuel Macron said at the opening of a summit in Mali's capital Bamako on Sunday. Leaders of the G5 Sahel bloc - Mali, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Niger and Chad - were...