(Reuters) - Suspected Kurdish militants have kidnapped three Chinese engineers in southeast Turkey near the border with Iraq and Syria , security sources said on Monday. The workers were seized from a shop in the border town of Silopi late on Sunday by suspected members of...

(Reuters) - Qatar is working to help free four Americans held hostage in Syria by various armed groups, a Gulf source familiar with the matter said on Monday, a day after the Gulf Arab state's diplomacy helped free a journalist held since 2012. The source declined to name...

    (Zaman Alwasl)- As the Islamic State reflects humiliating defeats on Bashar al-Assad’s forces east Syria, pro-regime activists’ rage has been sparked through social media, demanding oust of Defence...

(Reuters) - The United Nations condemned on Monday "appalling, widespread" crimes by Islamic State forces in Iraq , including mass executions of prisoners that could amount to war crimes. U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay condemned "grave, horrific human rights violations"...