Iraqi forces said Tuesday that they recaptured Mosul's train station, once one of the country's main rail hubs and the latest in a series of key sites retaken from extremists. The forces launched a major push last month to oust ISIS from west Mosul, taking back a series of neighborhoods as...

By Abdul Hafiz Holani (Zaman Al Wasl)- Sham Mohammad Arslan, 4-year-old refugee girl in Lebanon, has lost sight in her left eye due to medical mistake by a Lebanese doctor, father says. Sham is in urgent need for a surgery for her eye costs $3000. Such a number that is seldom to find with...

Hundreds if not thousands of armed men are converging on Libya's main oil shipping terminals, which the rival powers in the country's east and west are fighting to control in a battle being watched by global oil markets. The struggle for the Ras Lanuf refinery and nearby Sidr depot threatens...

A Syrian family has been arrested after a mother attempted to smuggle her 23-year-old son from a Greek island to the mainland in a suitcase. The woman had been given the right to move around freely inside Greece after applying for asylum, but her two sons, 23 and 24, had not, the Athens News...