A coalition led by the United States pummeled Islamic State targets in Iraq on Wednesday with 21 air strikes concentrated near the cities of Baji and Tuz, according to a statement released on Thursday. Five strikes near Baiji denied the militant group "an avenue of approach" and...

  A boat packed with mainly African migrants bound for Italy sank off the Libyan coast on Thursday and officials said up to 200 might have died. A security official in the western town of Zuwara, from where the overcrowded boat had set off, said there had around 400 people on...

This week, Germany made a small yet important decision regarding how it deals with Syrian migrants. Instead of deporting the migrants to the first European Union country they arrived in – as Germany was allowed to do for decades under an old E.U. regulation known as the Dublin...

President Mahmoud Abbas is acting to shake up Palestinian politics with peace talks with Israel in deep freeze and unity efforts with Hamas Islamists who run the Gaza Strip stalled. In power for more than a decade, and facing a mounting challenge to his stewardship, Abbas, 80, resigned...

(Reuters)- As many as 50 refugees were found dead in a parked truck in eastern Austria on Thursday, the Krone newspaper reported, saying initial indications were that they suffocated. The interior ministry had no immediate comment on the report. Tens of thousands of refugees...

Islamic State has seized new territory from Syrian rebels in northern Syria, advancing in an area where Turkey and the United States are planning to open a new front against the group. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based group tracking the war, said it had seized five...

Syrian insurgents, the Syrian army and Lebanese group Hezbollah agreed on a 48-hour ceasefire in the rebel-held town of Zabadani near Lebanon's border and two Shi'ite villages in Idlib province, sources close to negotiations on both sides said. The ceasefire would begin Thursday at 6 a.m....

A British hacker who U.S. and European officials said became a top cyber expert for Islamic State in Syria has been killed in a U.S. drone strike, a U.S. source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. It was the second reported killing of a senior ISIS figure in the last eight days after...

Zaman al-Wasl has obtained a new  wanted list  issued by Syrian air intelligence in 2014 includes names of 15,000 people cross the war-torn country. Activists said more than 70,000 people are wanted to the Syrian intelligence branches throughout Syria in addition to 21,000 army...

Rescuers saved about 3,000 migrants but found more than 50 dead on boats near the coast of Libya on Wednesday, the Italian coast guard said. Tens of thousands of people, mainly from Africa and the Middle East, have put to sea this year in the hope of reaching Europe, often...

The main suspect in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers residence at a U.S. military base in Saudi Arabia has been captured after nearly 20 years on the run, a Saudi-owned newspaper reported on Wednesday. Asharq al-Awsat said Ahmed al-Mughassil, leader of the Hezbollah al-Hejaz...

Two television journalists were killed during a live broadcast in Virginia on Wednesday, shot by a suspect who was a former employee of the TV station and who called himself a "powder keg" of anger over what he saw as racial discrimination at work and elsewhere in the United States....

The fate of two brothers from Kabul, one grievously wounded, the other killed fighting in Syria, spotlights Iran’s covert but active recruitment of Afghan refugees to buttress President Bashar Assad’s steadily depleting forces. Shiite Iran, Assad’s key military and financial patron, denies...

Kurdish forces backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes drove ISIS militants out of 10 villages in Iraq's Kirkuk province Wednesday in an offensive to secure their territory to the north, Kurdish military sources said. The assault began at dawn in the Daquq area, around 175 kilometers (110...

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...

A commander from the rebel Free Syrian Army died in a bomb attack on his car in the southern Turkish province of Hatay on Wednesday, a news agency and two insurgent sources said. The rebel leader was named by all sources as Jamil Raadoun, the commander of Sukour al-Ghab, one of several...

(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...

Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Tuesday it had treated a Syrian family with symptoms of exposure to chemical agents from an area where Islamic State fighters have been battling other rebels. Two adults, a three-year-old girl and a five-day-old baby girl were...