The number of foreigners living in Germany increased by 1.8% last year, the lowest rate in a decade, according to official figures released Monday. The Federal Statistical Office said the foreign-born population rose by about 204,000 to 11.4 million, in a year when Germany and other...

Lebanese group Hezbollah has provided military training to 220 pro-Assad regime Shabiha militants in Qamishli, northeastern Syria, according to local sources. A three-week training camp was organized by two Hezbollah commanders codenamed al-Hajj Mahdi and al-Hajj Salih, said the sources...

The Iraqi security authorities have thwarted a planned attack by Daesh and arrested nine of the group's militants in separate areas of the country, Anadolu Agency reported. The Iraqi Ministry of Defence announced in a statement that its forces had thwarted a Daesh attack against the...

Syrian actors in the rebel-held province of Idlib are using their talent to highlight the pain and suffering endured by the hundreds of their fellow citizens detained in the regime's prisons, Anadolu news agency has reported. The project in question is part of a bid to help release the...