Russian jets stepped up strikes on several towns in rebel-held Idlib province and rural Aleppo two days after the evacuation of rebels from their last pocket in the northern city of Aleppo, rebels and residents said on Saturday. They said at least eight strikes targeted Binish, Saraqeb and...

Status Quo guitarist Rick Parfitt died in hospital on Saturday after suffering a severe infection, his family said. The veteran rocker, who had survived numerous health scares, was 68. He was taken into hospital in Marbella on the south coast of Spain on Thursday due to complications with a...

(Sky News)- The Boko Haram extremist group has been crushed and forced from its last enclave, Nigeria's president has said. Muhammadu Buhari said Nigeria's army had captured a key Boko Haram camp in the Sambisa forest that was its stronghold. "The terrorists are on the run and no longer...

(The Guardian)- In 10 days’ time a court in Cairo will hear an appeal by journalist Esraa Abdel Fattah against the iniquitous travel ban imposed on her two years ago. She was prevented from leaving Egypt in January 2015 to take up a scholarship at Stanford university in California because...