The National Coalition appointed Mr. Asaad al-Achi as its executive director of Assistant Coordination Unit (ACU) on Wednesday, source said. Al-Achi, 34, based in Scotland, is a Western-educated accountant and  financial...

At least 1,000 people, mainly civilians, have been killed and roughly the same number injured in fighting and other violence in Iraq in June as Sunni militants swept through the north, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Victims include a number of confirmed summary executions...

Brazilian football ace Neymar da Silva Santos, commonly known as Neymar, has recorded a video addressing two young boys who fled from Syria’s civil war. Jumar, 7, and Limar al-Najm, 10 had waited outside the entrance of Neymar’s hotel in Brasilia in an attempt to ask him to...

German prosecutors have filed terrorism charges against a man accused of joining and fighting in Syria for a hard-line Islamic group that has since overrun parts of Iraq. Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that the 20-year-old, identified only as Kreshnik B. in line with German privacy...