A spokesman for the U.S.-backed Syrian forces fighting Daesh (ISIS) says thousands of people, including militants, have left the last area held by the extremists in Syria. Mustafa Bali tweeted that about 3,000 came out of the village of Baghouz in eastern Syria on Monday through a...

A call by French President Emmanuel Macron for reforms of the European Union to pave the way to a “European renaissance” won mainly just polite support on Tuesday from other European leaders. Some officials portrayed Macron’s reform plan as part of a bid to become the new leader of...

Prominent French jihadist Jean-Michel Clain was killed last month, his wife told AFP Tuesday after fleeing the last redoubt of the Islamic State group in eastern Syria. Clain's wife Dorothee Maquere said he was killed in mortar shelling after being wounded in the coalition drone strike that...

German stock market operator Deutsche Boerse plans to slow down some kinds of high-frequency trading by 1,000 times in a pilot project designed to reduce "aggressive" behaviour, it told AFP Tuesday. Trading in German and French share options on its Eurex platform will face a speed limit in...