A Syrian insurgent group said on Friday it had merged with a number of other rebel groups around Aleppo province to become a stronger fighting force in the country's five-year-old civil war. The group Failaq al-Sham, or Sham Legion, said on its Twitter feed it had merged with eight other...

(Hurriyet Daily)-  A Turkish man wanted by Russia for allegedly killing one of the two pilots of the Russian jet downed by Turkey near the Turkish-Syrian border in late 2015 has appeared at a funeral ceremony in Istanbul, saying he would go back to Syria. “I am here and there. I am...

Iraq has signed a $328 million deal with U.S. company General Electric that will boost power output during peak summer months, officials said Friday, although it falls far short of the country's needs. The deal will make only a small dent in the country's major summer production shortfall,...

German authorities said Friday they had carried out raids at the homes of elderly former SS soldiers accused of war crimes, including involvement in a 1944 civilian massacre in France. The three suspects, all in their 90s, were members of the so-called "Hitler Youth" SS division blamed for...