Nearly 100 combatants were killed on Friday in clashes between fighters loyal to Syria's regime, rebels and jihadists in northwestern Syria, a war monitor said. Starting at dawn on Friday morning -- and after bombing by the regime -- fighting in northern Hama province killed 51 government...

Its south is a volatile frontline, its northern border an open-air encampment for the displaced and its centre a teeming urban jungle. Syria's jihadist-controlled region of Idlib is home to some three million people who have been variously affected by a surge in regime attacks since April....

Authorities on Friday reassured anxious Tunisians there is no power vacuum in the North African state, shaken by President Beji Caid Essebsi's hospitalisation on the same day as twin suicide attacks in the capital. Essebsi, 92, was taken to hospital for a "serious illness" on Thursday, even...

Tunisian Tourism Minister René Trabelsi has sought to reassure tourists after twin suicide bombings targeting security forces struck the country's capital on Thursday, killing a patrol officer and injuring at least eight people. In an interview with The Associated Press, Trabelsi said he...