(Reuters) - A state prosecutor on Friday demanded a prison term of over four years for a 20-year-old German man accused of fighting with Islamic State insurgents in Syria , in the first trial of its kind in Germany . The defendant, identified only as Kreshnik B., who was...

Two people were killed in clashes between Islamist protesters and Egyptian police in Cairo on Friday, security officials said. The army and police had fanned out across the capital in anticipation of rallies called by an Islamist group, and police quickly moved in to...

(Reuters) - Syria rejected as "fabricated" U.S. accusations that its forces are targeting civilians with air strikes and said Washington would do better to criticize hardline Islamic State militants who have killed American citizens. The U.S. State Department said on...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian government forces have killed at least 30 rebels in an ambush in the suburbs of Damascus where troops and allied gunmen have been on the offensive for weeks, activists and state media said Thursday. State news agency SANA said 50 "terrorists" were...