Germany is planning a new law giving authorities the right to look at private messages and fingerprint children as young as 6, the interior minister said on Wednesday after the last government gathering before a national election in September. Ministers from central government and federal...

Thousands of Syrian refugees are returning home for a visit during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, after Turkey temporarily opened two border crossings with its war-torn neighbor. For some of the younger ones travelling back, the visit means seeing some of their relatives, even siblings,...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)-   U.S.-led coalition air strikes killed a family of five members in Raqqa, backing Kurdish –led forces in the offensive to liberate the city from the Islamic State, local monitor said Wednesday. Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently said the US strikes hit the...

A high level Syrian army delegation held talks in Baghdad with Iraqi counterparts on border security in the first public visit of its kind in years to coordinate the fight against ISIS, the Iraqi defense ministry said on Wednesday. The Syrian army last week reached the Iraqi border in a move...