Saudi authorities blocked roads in a flashpoint Shiite town Saturday, residents said a day after security officials reported that gunmen killed a two-year-old boy and a Pakistani man. The gunfire targeted a redevelopment site in a neighborhood of the town of Awamiya, the interior ministry...

Iraq's joint operations command says an Iraqi air force helicopter has been downed west of Mosul after coming under fire from ISIS. Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool, the command's spokesman, says the helicopter was hit Saturday afternoon while supporting Iraq's mostly Shiite militia forces in an...

Italy has expelled a 36-year-old Tunisian who had maintained contacts with the Berlin Christmas market attacker. The Interior Ministry said Saturday that the Tunisian was identified after the attacker, Anis Amri, was shot to death near Milan following the Berlin truck attack that killed 12....

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least seven regime army troops were killed on Friday when ISIS struck their bastions in the eastern countryside of Homs city, pro-regime media said. Zaman al-Wasl reporter said ISIS fighters had ambushed regime forces in al-Shumariya mountains that lie on the...