CAIRO: Gunmen killed two Egyptian policemen Wednesday in the Sinai Peninsula, the Interior Ministry said, in an attack claimed by ISIS. Egypt's security forces have come under regular attack since the military ousted Islamist President Mohammad Morsi two years ago. In...

A surge in migrants, many of them refugees from Syria, hit Hungary's southern border on Tuesday, passing through gaps in an unfinished barrier to a Europe groping for answers to its worst refugee crisis since World War Two. Nearing the end of a flight from war and poverty, they...

Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Tuesday it had treated a Syrian family with symptoms of exposure to chemical agents from an area where Islamic State fighters have been battling other rebels. Two adults, a three-year-old girl and a five-day-old baby girl were...

 A fierce fighting on Tuesday took place in the northern countryside of Aleppo city between rebels and Syrian regime forces backed by Shiite militias as rebels launch new battle to recapture towns they lost months ago, rebel spokesman said. Colonel Mohamed al-Ahmed, Shamiya Front's...