The European Union's chairman joined growing international calls for Greece to be granted debt restructuring as part of any new loan deal if it delivers convincing reforms to avert imminent bankruptcy. The call was an implicit challenge to Germany, Athens' biggest creditor,...

An airstrike by Syrian regime in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo killed 15 people, including 6 children, on Wednesday as helicopter gunships pounded a rebel-held neighborhood, activists said. Zaman al-Wasl local reporter said the bombing had targeted Ibad al-Rahman mosque in al-Bab...

An Israeli civilian is being held against his will by the Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Israel said on Thursday. Hamas, the Palestinian enclave's dominant faction, declined to comment. Israel suspects militants in Gaza would use its citizens to bargain for the release of Palestinians...

At least 45 Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group militants have died after eating a poisoned iftar meal, British newspaper the Daily Mail reported, It is thought that a group of 145 ISIS militants had sat together to break their fast, but only 100 survived the meal, the report added....