The European Union has extended the mandate of its naval operation targeting migrant smuggling in the Mediterranean and tasked it with monitoring illegal oil trafficking from Libya. Operation Sophia, which has naval ships and aircraft monitoring the Mediterranean, aims to disrupt smuggling...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three trucks carrying food rations and medicine entered into embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs on Tuesday due to the Russian-brokered cessation of hostilities agreement which reached three days ago, local activists and Russian statement said. The Russian task command in...

A senior Kurdish official says the U.S. role in the fight against Daesh (ISIS) militants in Syria's Raqqa must not end with the liberation of the city but continue as a guarantor of its future stability. Ilham Ahmed says the Kurdish-led effort to secure the city after liberation needs U.S....

Syria views a U.S. decision to halt CIA support to rebel groups fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad as a "start" toward ending the six-year conflict, a government minister told Reuters. "All these steps are the start to solving the Syrian crisis, and without that there is no...