(BBC)- A Syrian national has been arrested in Germany accused of war crimes involving the murder of dozens of civil servants. The man named as Abdalfatah HA is suspected of being part of a unit with an al-Qaeda-linked group formerly known as al-Nusra Front, which killed 36 Syrian government...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 fighters from the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces killed by ISIS in the eastern countryside of Raqqa city, the group's news agency said Thursday. The US-backed SDF continues to push to gain ground in eastern al-Raqqah. As part of its efforts in the Wrath of the...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army took two village  from the powerful Kurdish YPG militia in the eastern countryside of Aleppo as hundreds of families flee ISIS-held areas, local reporter said. The FSA fighters captured villages of Tel Tourin and Qara near...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel starts a two-day trip to Egypt and Tunisia Thursday, part of her push to limit migrant flows to Europe through North Africa, especially chaos-torn Libya. Since the 2011 overthrow of Moammer Gadhafi, Libya has lacked a national government, which has made it the...