Russia said on Thursday it had serious grounds to suspect Turkey was preparing a military incursion in Syria as a Syrian army source said the city of Aleppo would soon be encircled by government forces that are advancing with Russian air support. Turkey, which has backed the...

German police Thursday arrested two Algerians suspected of links to the Islamic State group and hunted two others after raids targeting several sites including refugee shelters where some of the suspects lived. The four "from the jihadist scene are under investigation over suspicions that they...

The United Nations struggled to save Syrian peace talks as Damascus and its Russian allies seized territory in fierce fighting and rifts widened among embattled rebel factions. The Syrian army said on Wednesday its forces had broken through rebel defenses to reach two Shi'ite...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanon's army killed two Syrian refugees and arrested 11 in the town of Arsal near the border with Syria on Wednesday in what it claimed a raid on Islamic State cells, residents told Zaman al-Wasl. The Lebanese army has killed a man and his wife who fled the town of Qara in...