Tunisia's Foreign Ministry says 60 of its citizens have been released from detention in Libya, leaving more than 100 still under arrest. On Saturday, Tunisia's consul in Tripoli, Brahim Rezgui, said that 172 Tunisians had been arrested by authorities. Differing reasons have been given for...

ISIS controls more than half of Syria's territory after its westwards advance into the central city of Palmyra, an activist group monitoring the war said Thursday. The militant group, which already controlled wide tracts of land in Syria's north and east, captured the ancient city late on...

The Syrian government extended its intense aerial campaign against rebel-held areas in the Old City of Aleppo on Wednesday, conducting a series of airstrikes that killed a family of 7 members, a monitoring group said. The Syria Network for Human Rights said 7 victims including 3 children and 2...

(Reuters)-  ISIS militants stormed the Syrian city of Palmyra Wednesday, seizing it from government forces in fierce fighting as civilians fled and Syria's antiquities chief called on the world to save its ancient monuments. Syrian state television said pro-government fighters withdrew...