France will cut processing time for asylum requests and boost housing for refugees while "systematically" deporting illegal economic migrants, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said Wednesday. Unveiling an "action plan" for dealing with tens of thousands of people who arrive in France...

Iraqi forces clashed with Daesh (ISIS) militants holding out in Mosul's Old City on Wednesday, more than 36 hours after Baghdad declared victory over the extremists in what they had made the de facto Iraqi capital of their self-declared caliphate. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's victory...

The Lebanese army killed a suspected Islamic State-linked militant accused of carrying out several bomb attacks in Ras Baalbek town near the Syrian border, a security source and a military source said on Tuesday. The man, a Syrian national, was shot dead during an operation launched after...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Dozens of displaced people from al-Waer neighborhood left Zograh camp in Jarablus to return to al-Waer in Homs after they reached an agreement with the al-Assad regime on Monday.  Zaman al-Wasl’s reporter in the area said that more than 500 people, most of them...