Iraqi forces have launched a counter-offensive to retake areas of Anbar province recently captured by fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Al Jazeera's Imran Khan, reporting from Baghdad, said on Tuesday that the first city likely to face an assault from the Iraqi...

(By Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Local activists said Abduction and killing have returned to Homs city as three bodies of two boys and a girl were found last week with signs of slaughtering and torture after being kidnapped. Activists reported that bodies of two cousin boys,...

At least 15 people were killed in Syrian regime air strikes around Palmyra, the U.K.-based Syrian Network for Human Rights said in a statement on Monday. The strikes close to the UNESCO World Heritage site in Homs province injured dozens more, the rights group said. On Sunday, the...

 A Tunisian soldier opened fire on colleagues at a military base in the capital Tunis on Monday, killing an officer and 6 others and wounding 15 more before being shot dead himself, Tunisian authorities said. It was not immediately clear what had triggered the shooting at the Bouchoucha...