US-backed forces said Sunday time was up for Islamic State group jihadists hunkering down in their eastern Syrian holdout and an assault was imminent. "The timeline (we gave) ISIS to surrender themselves is over," Syrian Democratic Forces spokesman Mustefa Bali said on Twitter, using...

Striking train workers and students shut the Algerian capital’s rail network and most of the country’s secondary schools Sunday, in protest against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s fifth term bid, witnesses said. No trains, metros, trams or buses left or circulated within Algiers,...

US-backed Syrian forces awaited orders Sunday to relaunch their push against the Islamic State group's final scrap of territory as an earlier exodus of civilians from the redoubt slowed to a trickle. The Syrian Democratic Forces renewed their offensive against the jihadists on March 1 after...

Israeli warplanes launched two airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, shortly after a rocket fire from the Palestinian territory, according to the military.  In a statement, the army said its forces struck several military targets in a Hamas compound in northern Gaza and two...