Some 50 migrants were found dead in the hold of a boat off the coast of Libya on Wednesday during a rescue operation which saved 430 other people, the Italian coast guard said. Thousands of people, mainly from Africa and the Middle East, have put to sea this year in the hope of reaching...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) 6 documents obtained by Zaman al-Wasl and fellow newspaper, Eqtsad, from the archive of the Syrian Oil Company, have revealed that the Syrian regime admitted through official documents its recognition of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) as a key...

CAIRO: Gunmen killed two Egyptian policemen Wednesday in the Sinai Peninsula, the Interior Ministry said, in an attack claimed by ISIS. Egypt's security forces have come under regular attack since the military ousted Islamist President Mohammad Morsi two years ago. In...

A surge in migrants, many of them refugees from Syria, hit Hungary's southern border on Tuesday, passing through gaps in an unfinished barrier to a Europe groping for answers to its worst refugee crisis since World War Two. Nearing the end of a flight from war and poverty, they...