(Zaman Al Wasl)- Mahmoud Afara, an activist focused on refugee affairs, reported to Zaman al-Wasl news from one of the Syrians stranded at the Algerian-Moroccan border that the refugees “are not migrants, but have families in Morocco and their destination was Morocco, not Europe.” ...

( The Guardian )- Aine Lesley Davis, one of the British jihadis who brutalised and beheaded western hostages in Syria, has been convicted in Turkey on terrorism charges and jailed for seven and a half years. Davis, 35, is suspected by western intelligences services of being a member of the...

Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday ruled out any participation on German soil in a potential Turkish referendum about bringing back the death penalty. Immediately after winning a close vote last month that boosted his powers, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan mooted a second referendum...

ISIS has issued a video showing the beheading of what it described as a Russian intelligence officer captured in Syria, the U.S.-based SITE monitoring website reported on Tuesday. The Russian Defense Ministry and the FSB security service were not immediately available for comment. The...