Greece has offered to suspend its planned referendum on its bailout terms if negotiations with the EU are reopened, Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said Tuesday, the Times of Malta reported. The daily's website cited Prime Minister Joseph Muscat as telling parliament that the Greek offer...

A top aide of Tayyip Erdogan rejected accusations the Turkish president was ready to pitch the country's armed forces into war in Syria and said any security measures it took would be intended only to secure its southern frontier. Turkey's main opposition leader said the "drums of war" were...

The hardline Islamic State group has beheaded two women in Syria, the first time it has decapitated female civilians, the founder of a group monitoring the war said on Tuesday. The beheadings took place in the eastern Deir al-Zor province this week said Rami Abdulrahman, head of the Syrian...

Two Syrian men purportedly kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in east Lebanon were released several hours later, the National News Agency said Tuesday. The report said Mohammad Zakaria Yehya, 28, and Ismail Fahed Noureddine, 31, were released shortly before midnight. NNA had said the two men...