Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, in statement issued Friday, said members of the U.S.-backed group it had abducted two days ago are no more than agents to 'America', with main role serves its projects and interests in the region. Nusra Front had abducted late on Tuesday the leader of a U.S.-backed...

An 18-month-old Palestinian boy has burned to death after settlers set fire to his family house in Duma village, south of Nablus city, in the occupied West Bank. The parents of Ali Saad Dawabsheh and his four-year-old brother were also injured in the attack, sources told Al Jazeera on...

Swifts darted in and out of nesting holes in the scrubland around an old brick factory in northern Serbia. In the shade of the trees, Syrians and Afghans rested amid the rubbish of those who came before them, waiting for nightfall to walk across the nearby Hungarian border and into...

Syrian National Security Bureau chief Ali Mamlouk has visited Riyadh for an unusual sit-down with Saudi deputy Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, according to a report in a leading pro-Assad Lebanese newspaper. Al-Akhbar reported Friday morning that Russian President Vladimir Putin...