The bodies of dozens of civilians killed in the past two days while fleeing an ISIS-held neighborhood in Mosul lay on Saturday in a street close to the frontline with Iraqi armed forces, a Reuters TV crew reported. The dead included men, women and children. Bags in which they had carried...

Syria's President Bashar Assad has said the worst of his country's six-year war "is behind us" after a string of advances by his forces backed by key ally Russia. In recent months, Assad's troops and allied fighters have retaken territory across the country, including recapturing all of...

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Saturday he wants to use to a trip to Turkey on Monday to try to "normalize" relations with Ankara after a series of rows with the NATO partner. Germany is considering moving its soldiers from Incirlik air force base in Turkey to Jordan or...

Islamist militants kidnapped and beheaded a young shepherd in Tunisian mountains near the border with Algeria, less than two years after his brother was killed in the same way, security sources and residents told TAP state news agency on Saturday. Troops found the body of Khelifa Soltani...