Hundreds of residents have finally left the Rukban camp for displaced persons in southeast Syria, amid a months-long Assad regime siege and Russian pressure. A local aid worker and citizen journalist Omar al-Homsi said about 500 people left on April 4 for regime territory. Another 400 departed...

Casualties from the battle for Libya’s capital mounted on Tuesday while Islamic State killed three people in a desert town, illustrating how jihadists may exploit renewed chaos. Medical facilities reported 47 people killed and 181 wounded in recent days as eastern forces seek to take...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Turkish Coast Guard rescued an unidentified child after a boat’s drown.  The child was traveling with his family to the Mytilene Greek Island and was taken to a Turkish hospital. Amer Abu Taim, an activist who works as a driver in Izmir and helps...

The appointment of upper house chairman Abdelkader Bensalah accords with Algeria’s constitution but many people oppose him because he is part of a ruling caste that has dominated Algeria since independence from France in 1962. The protest movement demands the overhaul of a secretive...