(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces on Sunday captured strategic town after fierce fighting with ISIS in the western countryside of Raqqa city, the U.S.-backed militia said. Capture of the village of al-Mahmoudelly will push SDF further to encircle al-Raqqa city , the de facto...

Around 1,100 sub-Saharan African migrants tried to cross into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco Sunday by storming a border fence, though most were eventually turned back, the Spanish government said. Dozens of migrants made it to the top of the 6 meter barbed wire fence in...

Iraqi forces have retaken around two thirds of the eastern half of Mosul from ISIS since the start of an offensive in mid-October, a top commander said Sunday. "From east Mosul... more than 60 percent" has been retaken from ISIS, Staff Lieutenant General Abdulwahab al-Saadi, a top commander...

Syrian government warplanes carried out several airstrikes and low-level clashes persisted in some areas Sunday, but a Russian and Turkish-backed ceasefire largely held in other areas on its third day, activists and rebels said. Jets bombed the villages of Kafr Kar, Mintar and around...