(AFP)- Syrian forces have evacuated nearly 4,000 people from a rebel bastion close to Damascus that has been under government siege for nearly two years, state media said Sunday. The mass evacuation from Eastern Ghouta was also reported by the Syrian Observatory for Human...

Maltam (Cameroon) (AFP) - Boko Haram fighters kidnapped at least 60 people in a deadly attack in northern Cameroon on Sunday, police said, in the latest cross-border raid by the Nigeria-based Islamist group. It came a day after neighbouring Chad deployed troops to combat Boko...

(LA Times)- Israel’s military carried out an airstrike in Syria on Sunday that killed seven people, including at least one Hezbollah field commander, according to Lebanese media reports that Israel neither confirmed nor denied. According to Lebanese security sources quoted in the...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian wing of al Qaeda, the Nusra Front, said on Sunday it had shot down an army cargo plane carrying food and ammunition overnight, but Syrian state television blamed the loss of the aircraft and its crew on bad weather. Reuters could not...