A Baghdad court sentenced a Frenchman to death on Wednesday for joining the Islamic State group, bringing to seven the number of French jihadists on death row in Iraq. Yassin Sakkam was among 12 French citizens transferred to Iraqi authorities in January by a US-backed force fighting the...

Syria's regime has increased its deadly bombardment of Idlib in recent weeks, but analysts say that is unlikely to signal an all-out offensive on the jihadist bastion. Why the alarm? Eight years into Syria's civil war, the government has notched up a series of victories against rebels...

 Regime airstrikes on militant-controlled northwestern Syria Wednesday killed at least 14 civilians, including 5 women and 3 children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group and local activists reported. Seven of them, including 5 women, were killed in the...

China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd has filed a motion for summary judgment in its lawsuit against the U.S. government, in the telecoms equipment maker’s latest bid to fight sanctions from Washington that threaten to push it out of global markets. The motion, filed late on Tuesday in the...