Athens (AFP) - Greek banks reopened Monday after a three-week shutdown imposed to stop a run on ATMs from crashing the financial system, but citizens woke up to widespread price hikes as part of a cash-for-reform deal with the country's creditors. The bank shutdown since June 29 is...

Unidentified gunmen have assassinated a Free Syrian Army commander in the northern countryside of Aleppo on Sunday, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Lieutenant Hussein Qentar, a former Syrian army officer who defected to join Syrian revolution, has been found dead near Anadan town. Qentar, who is...

 At least 25 Daesh militants and 15 Iraqi security personnel were killed Sunday in separate incidents across Iraq’s western Anbar province, according to Iraqi army and police sources. Lieutenant-Colonel Ahmed al-Obaidi of the Iraqi army told Anadolu Agency that four Daesh militants –...

Syria's army said on Sunday it had stepped up air strikes and retaken villages in a new offensive on Islamist insurgents in areas close to President Bashar al Assad's ancestral homeland in the coastal province of Latakia. Aerial bombardment had intensified over the past 48 hours...