Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the truck bombing on a Libyan police training center on Thursday that killed at least 47 people, according to a statement from the group. Islamic State fighters have expanded their presence in the North African state, taking advantage of the...

Turkish police detained senior local officials from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) on Friday in a raid on one of its Istanbul offices, party officials said, days after President Tayyip Erdogan said he backed legal action against its members. Riot police and special...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Nihad Abed, a Syrian young man has chosen to sit outside in very cold snowing weather in his underwear holding the revolution’s flag, to protest against siege in Madaya. The temperature was almost minus 10, but he expressed to Zaman Al Wasl that...

Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday Germany must have a "fundamental" debate about how to integrate newcomers, as police identified 16 people suspected of a shocking rash of sexual assaults blamed on migrants. As outrage grew over the assaults, which included two...