Aid workers in Syria's largest camp for displaced people face an unprecedented threat, a Kurdish official said on Sunday, following the murder of a 26-year-old health worker by jihadists. The Kurdish Red Crescent on Wednesday announced the death of a staff member from a gunshot wound...

At least six pro-Iran militants, including a Revolutionary Guard commander, were killed, and more than 14 others were wounded on Saturday in snap attack by a suspected Daesh group in the Syrian desert. Zaman al-Wasl reporter, quoting field sources, said that the attack took place while the...

  Police say one hostage has been released uninjured from a Texas synagogue where a man had been holding four people. The Colleyville Police Department said the man was released shortly after 5 p.m. Saturday. He was expected to be reunited with his family soon and did not require...

 Syrian rebel and opposition groups said Germany's conviction of a former Syrian intelligence officer for crimes against humanity this week was welcome but was only a step towards holding to account Bashar al-Assad and his top aides. The conviction of Anwar Raslan, who defected to...