“Responsibility for this brutality lies in one place alone, with the Assad regime and its allies, Russia and Iran,” President Obama said last week of the barbarity in Aleppo, Syria, “and this blood and these atrocities are on their hands.” My journalism students and I here in Dubai...

A man stormed into a Zurich mosque and opened fire on people praying on Monday evening, injuring three people, police said. Two of the three men - aged 30, 35 and 56 years - were seriously injured, Zurich city police said. The suspect, a man around the age of 30 years old according to...

An Italian woman who traveled to Syria two years ago proclaiming her support for ISIS was sentenced in absentia Monday to nine years in jail on terrorism-related charges, a court ruled. Maria Giulia Sergio, 29, converted to Islam in 2007 and moved to Syria with her Albanian-born husband in...

Several villages held by ISIS have been captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a coalition of militias backed by the United States that includes a strong Kurdish contingent, an organization that monitors the war said on Monday. The advance is part of a military campaign backed by an...