Islamic State militants on Sunday blew up the temple of Baal Shamin, one of the most important sites in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra, said Maamoun Abdul Karim, the country's antiquities chief. The temple bombing would be the first time the insurgents, who control swathes of...

At least 16 ISIS fighters who contracted HIV after having unprotected sex with two Moroccan sex slaves have been ordered to carry out suicide attacks, a doctor forced to treated them has claimed. The men, most of whom are foreign fighters, were treated at an ISIS-run hospital in the...

Syrian regime's devastating aerial campaign has extended on eastern suburbs of Damascus on Sunday, killing 30 people in less than 12 hours since 52 people had been killed in key town of Douma northeast the capital, activists and monitoring groups said. The Syrian Network for Human...

People of Zabadani town northwest Damascus, who fled the two-month-old offensive by Syrian forces and key ally Hezbollah militia, have been forced to leave neighboring towns of Bloudan and al-Mamoura under army threat to Madhaya and Bukin villages, activists said on Sunday warning of an imminent...

Hundreds of migrants crossed unhindered from Greece into Macedonia on Sunday after overwhelmed security forces appeared to abandon a bid to stem their flow through the Balkans to western Europe following days of chaos and confrontation. Riot police remained, but did little to...

Fingerprint evidence shows that the gunman overpowered by passengers on a train in France is a Morrocan known to European authorities as a suspected Islamist militant, according to a source familiar with the case. Two people were wounded in the struggle to subdue the...

United Arab Emirates forces based in Yemen's port city of Aden have freed a British hostage who had been held by al Qaeda, state news agency WAM said on Sunday. The hostage, who went missing in Feb. 2014, was taken to Abu Dhabi on a military plane on Saturday night, the agency said....

More than 1,500 mostly Syrian refugees, trapped in a no-man's land for three days, entered Macedonia from Greece on Saturday, after police allowed them to pass despite earlier trying to hold back the crowd using stun grenades. The dash across the border was the latest dramatic chapter...

At least 7 Syrian army officers were killed in Isis attack on Quwairis military airport in the northern city of Aleppo, activists said on Saturday. The Islamic State's surprise attack on regime's powerful air base has left 7 pilots and technical officers dead. The death toll of Quwairis...

After a brief respite aboard a Greek passenger ship, Syrian refugee Mohamed has found himself stranded on a filthy, chaotic strip at the Macedonian border, his way to the relative security of northern Europe blocked by razor wire and riot police. The 20-year-old geology student,...

(Reuters)- The United States and its coalition partners targeted Islamic State in 27 air strikes in Friday's round of daily attacks on the militant group in Iraq and Syria, the Command Joint Task Force said in a statement on Saturday. Twenty-two of the strikes were in Iraq with...

At least 52 people have been killed in stricken Douma on Saturday as the Syrian regime fierce aerial campaign extends on the rebel-held town northeast of Damascus, 6 days since a massacre committed against 117 civilians and branded as war crime by UN officials. Rescue workers said 20...

Islamist rebels have killed 20 Syrian army soldiers and Hezbollah militants in the western neighborhood of Zabadani town northwest of the capital Damascus, activists said on Saturday. Fighters of the dominant Ahrar al-Sham movement and the al-Qaeda branch Nusra Front, who launched attacks on...

Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and several other prominent Islamists were sentenced to life in prison on Saturday for murder and inciting violence, judicial sources said, part of an ongoing crackdown on the outlawed group. Badie has faced numerous trials and has...

(Reuters)- A loud blast was heard in the diplomatic area of Kabul on Saturday followed by blaring alarms, Reuters witnesses said. There was no immediate confirmation of what caused the blast of whether there were any casualties.

A gunman overpowered by passengers during a shooting on a train in France on Friday had been identified as dangerous by foreign security services and had been under police surveillance, a French source with knowledge of the case said. Three people were wounded in the struggle to subdue the...

Top aides to the leaders of North and South Korea met at the Panmunjom truce village straddling their border on Saturday, raising hopes for an end to a standoff that put the rivals on the brink of armed conflict. The meeting at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) village, known for its sky-blue...

Crowds of migrants and refugees were building on Greece's border with Macedonia on Saturday after a cold, wet night spent in the open, their entry slowly rationed by Macedonian police and soldiers. Most of them Syrian refugees, the crowd of several thousand shouted "Help us!" at...

A helicopter from the Saudi-led forces battling anti-government fighters in Yemen crashed along the Saudi border, killing the two pilots, the coalition said Saturday. "The two pilots fell as martyrs when their aircraft crashed while they were defending the borders of Saudi Arabia from these...

At least 13 people have been killed on Friday in Syrian regime air strikes on rebel-held Aleppo province, activists said. The daily barrel bomb attacks on northern province have killed 10 people in al-Bab town near Aleppo and 3 others in Tariq al-Bab neighborhood. Meanwhile, ISIS mortar rounds...