Cologne police on Sunday said they had now recorded over 500 cases of New Year's Eve violence blamed on migrants, piling fresh pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel over her liberal stance towards refugees. Marking a sharp jump from the caseload of 379 given on...

Syria's al-Qaeda affiliate briefly detained two of the country's most prominent media activists who worked at a radio station in the northwestern Idlib province on Sunday, their employer said. Raed Fares and Hadi al-Abdallah were released about 12 hours after their abduction, Fresh FM said in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels took ground on Sunday from ISIS in the northern countryside of Aleppo near the Turkish border, field commander told Zaman al-Wasl. Rebels have captured towns of Qura Cobri, Qura Mazra'a and al-Kherba which had been controlled by ISIS two weeks ago. Omar...

The death toll of Russian air strikes in Syria's Idlib province has nearly reached 100, as several dozen of those who were critically injured in the attacks on Saturday have died, a volunteer rescue group reports. "After 32 hours of our rescue operation, and following the deaths of...