(Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish forces on Sunday found and freed workers who had gone missing a day earlier when Islamic State insurgents seized a small crude oil station near the northern city of Kirkuk, the provincial governor and a provincial councilman said. The Kurds retook...

(Zaman AL Wasl)- Ahrar al-Sham rebel group has thwarted Syrian forces’ attack on Dhour Wardeh checkpoint in rebel-held city of Zabadani, killing 50 troopers, according to statement posted online on Sunday. The Islamist movement of Ahrar al-Sham also...

(Reuters) - Islamic State militants said they had beheaded a second Japanese hostage, journalist Kenji Goto, prompting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to vow to step up humanitarian aid to the group's opponents in the Middle East and help bring his killers to justice. "I feel intense...

(Reuters) - Greece's new leftist government opened talks on its bailout with European partners on Friday by flatly refusing to extend the program or to cooperate with the international inspectors overseeing it. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' government also sacked the heads of the...