Aid workers on Monday made the first delivery of desperately needed assistance since the start of Syria's fragile ceasefire, as an international task force met to try to bolster the truce. The task force co-chaired by Moscow and Washington held talks in Geneva to evaluate...

(The Telegraph)- Every year, a few hundred thousand hardy tourists make it to the snowy town of Akureyri in the far north of Iceland, braving 70mph winds and freezing temperatures in search of ski slopes, whale watching trips and the Northern Lights. Yet the town’s newest...

 Forces loyal to Libya's internationally recognised government seized a key central neighbourhood of second city Benghazi from Islamist militias on Tuesday, the military said. The advance came as Libya's parliament again failed to vote on a UN-backed unity government...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Recent Syrian regime’s military campaign and Russian airstrikes on the countryside of Hama have increase the burden on the civil defense forces, which already suffer of shortage of manpower and equipment. Zaman Al Wasl has observed the suffering...