Syria's army and its allies have encircled a Daesh (ISIS) pocket in central Syria after a series of advances in the desert region, state media, Hezbollah-run media and a war monitor reported on Friday. President Bashar al-Assad's military has advanced against Daesh along two prongs towards...

European travel stocks fell sharply in early trading on Friday after a deadly attack in tourist hotspot Barcelona, with investors also increasingly concerned the Trump administration was fraying at the seams. As a global sell-off spread, the pan-European STOXX 600 was down 0.9 percent by...

In the spring of 2015 a Syrian major general escorted a small team of chemical weapons inspectors to a warehouse outside the Syrian capital Damascus. The international experts wanted to examine the site, but were kept waiting outside in their car for around an hour, according to several people...

A van plowed into crowds in the Spanish city of Barcelona on Thursday and a regional official said 13 people were killed, in what police said they were treating as a terrorist attack. Police said they had arrested a man linked to the attack in the heart of the city, but did not identify him...