Fighters from an al Qaeda splinter group, the Islamic State of  Iraq  and the Levant (ISIL), withdrew from a rebel-held Syrian town near the border with  Turkey  on Friday, a monitoring group said. Months of rebel infighting in and around Azaz, 5 km (3...

Turkey has reopened the Bab al-Hawa border crossing after clashes inside a refugee camp earlier this month, according to Zaman Alwasl reporter. The insurgent bloc Islamic Front had tried to move refugees to nearby camps because of Turkish objections to gunmen at the Bab al-Hawa...

 Twelve people including two children were killed on Thursday when a gas tank exploded at a Turkish restaurant in the Qatari capital Doha, authorities in the Gulf Arab state reported. About 30 others were injured in the blast at the Istanbul Restaurant that one security source...

  Germany  faces an increased threat of attack due to around a dozen German militants who have returned from the conflict in  Syria  with specialist knowledge of weapons and bomb-making, German intelligence officers said. Hans-Georg Maassen, head of...