Fighters linked to al-Qaeda have kidnapped and executed an Iraqi freelance cameraman working in northern Syria, the first foreign journalist killed by fighters in the rebel-held north, according to a press freedom watchdog.  The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said...

Turkey’s popularity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has shrunk over last three years, with particular sharp drops among the Syrian and Egyptian public, a field study conducted by a Turkish think-tank says. While 78 percent of respondents in the 16 countries subject to the...

  The Islamic state in Iraq and the Levant posted online a decision to impose a blockade on areas under control of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in northern Syria. The ISIL’s statement ordered people of ‘Aleppo State’ to prevent entry of food staples,...

  Syria’s Democratic Union Party, the country’s most powerful Kurdish group, hopes to create an autonomous Kurdish region in a federal Syria, its chief, Salih Muslim, told AFP in an interview.   Speaking during a visit to France, he confirmed that...