Islamic State militants attacked a prison in al-Hasaka in an attempt to free prisoners belonging to the group who had mutinied, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said in a statement on Thursday. Islamic State "sleeper cells ... infiltrated from the surrounding neighbourhoods and...

Israeli police forcibly evicted a Palestinian family from their home in a flashpoint East Jerusalem neighbourhood on Wednesday before a digger tore down the property, ending a standoff that has drawn international attention. Resident Mahmoud Salhiyeh took to the roof of the house in...

 The United Arab Emirates' civil aviation regulator has opened an investigation into an aborted take-off by an Emirates airline passenger jet this month at Dubai airport, the carrier said on Saturday. It is the second inquiry launched into the airline in less than a month, after another...

The murder of Nail al-Naif, 19, is the latest episode in an alarming trend of violence against refugees in the country. Turkish police have detained eight suspects over the stabbing and killing of a young Syrian refugee in Istanbul on Monday. Nail al-Naif, 19, was sleeping in his...