(Reuters) - French anti-terrorist police surrounded a small northern town and helicopters hovered overhead after at least one person was taken hostage in a print works by two men believed to have carried out an attack on a Paris satirical journal. Earlier, police had chased a...

(Reuters) - Syria's al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front and other Sunni Muslim militants fought during the night to capture two Shi'ite villages in the country's north but were repelled, activists on both sides of the war and a monitoring group said on Friday. The insurgents were...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Two newborn babies passed away on Friday due to the snow storm sweeping Syria and to the lack of foods and medicines in rebel-held city of Douma, Syria Human Rights Committee reported. The twins Abdul Rahman and Fatema have died of bad weather condition as the...

Militants from Yemen's Shiite Houthi movement on Thursday kidnapped seven teachers and two students from a religious school in Sanaa's northern Arhab district. The militants kidnapped the teachers and students as part of a search operation the group is conducting in the...