A Turkish soldier who went missing this week on the border with Syrian territory controlled by Islamic State has been seen in a hospital run by the militants, Hurriyet newspaper reported on Saturday. If confirmed, the soldier's capture would be a major problem for Turkey, after it...

Austria and Germany threw open their borders to thousands of exhausted migrants on Saturday, bussed to the Hungarian border by a right-wing government that had tried to stop them but was overwhelmed by the sheer numbers reaching Europe’s frontiers. Left to walk the last yards into...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed The Islamic State has imposed royalties on Christian adult males of  al-Qaryatain town, 90 km (60 miles) east Homs city, in what the hardline group said its an implementation for 'Dhimmis Contract', a 1377-year-old statement. The main theme of the contract...

Six Syrian government security personnel were killed by Druze gunmen in the south of the country, a monitor said on Saturday, after two car bomb blasts killed 26 people, including veteran anti-government cleric, overnight provoking angry protests. The two blasts, which occurred late on...