(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...

A Syrian military offensive backed by heavy Russian air strikes threatened to cut critical rebel supply lines into the northern city of Aleppo on Tuesday, while the warring sides said peace talks had not started despite a U.N. statement they had. U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura...