Fifteen new cases of polio have been confirmed in Syria, including a child who may have caught the disease in Raqqa, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. Aid workers are unable to vaccinate the population in and around Raqqa, a city held by Islamic State militants and a target of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian monitoring group said the Iranian missile attack on so-called ISIS targets on Sunday night had hit only residential areas in the countryside of Deir Ezzor province. Furat Post, media monitor tracks war in the eastern province, said no ISIS targets were hit by Iran’s...

An Iraqi journalist was killed and three French reporters were wounded after a mine exploded in Mosul, where they were covering an advance by Iraqi forces against ISIS militants, France 2 television and a diplomatic source said on Monday. The television network said Iraqi journalist...

 Several intercity rail tracks in Germany were hit by arson attacks overnight, police said Monday, in what could be protest action by left-wing extremists ahead of the G20 summit in July. Cable ducts of rail signalling equipment were set on fire in the states of Lower Saxony, Berlin,...