A lack of funding and war in Syria and Iraq has stalled progress towards eliminating measles, with deaths from the disease rising in recent years, the World Health Organization has warned. Speaking in Geneva on Thursday, WHO expert Robert Perry said: "The big area of concern...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- The clashes between Islam Army and Ahrar al-Sham movement have been renewed on Sunday near Bab al-Hawa, the strategic border crossing of with Turkey, activists said.  Islam Army spokesman, captain Islam Alloush,...

(Reuters) - Islamic State militants fighting in Iraq and Syria claimed in a video posted online on Sunday that they had beheaded American hostage Peter Kassig. The video did not show the beheading but showed a masked man standing with a decapitated head covered in blood...

At least 15 militants from the Islamic State for Iraq and the Levant were killed in Baghdad on Saturday, Iraqi army sources said. In other attacks, eight security officials were killed in the Iraqi capital, Iraqi security officials said on Saturday....