Greece ferried hundreds of refugees to its mainland on Friday to relieve the pressure on outlying islands that have been overwhelmed by thousands of people arriving by boat to flee Syria's civil war. At the same time, crowds of migrants massed on the Greek border with...

The second-in-command of the Islamic State militant group was killed during a U.S. air strike in Iraq on Tuesday, the White House said on Friday, dealing a blow to the group that has sought to form a caliphate across the Muslim world. "Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, also known as Hajji...

 White House confirms ISIS second-in-command Hajji Mutazz was killed in US military airstrike on August 18

Fragments from mortars fired by Islamic State militants at Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq earlier this month tested positive in a U.S. military field test for the chemical weapons agent sulfur mustard, a U.S. general said on Friday. Marine Corps Brigadier General Kevin...

Dozens of people, many of them civilians, were killed in air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition on the southwestern Yemeni city of Taiz, an aid organization and Houthi media said on Friday. Houses were reduced to rubble and many victims were unable to reach hospitals, Medicins Sans...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) The siege imposed by Syrian regime on the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp south of Damascus is 800-day-old now, with180 death cases and 400 days without water and 850 days without electricity, a monitoring group tracks the breaches committed against Palestinians in...

A second group of rebel fighters trained in Turkey by the U.S.-led coalition could be deployed to Syria within weeks as part of a campaign to push Islamic State insurgents away from the border, diplomatic sources told Reuters on Friday. The United States and Turkey plan to...

Macedonian police firing tear gas and stun grenades drove back crowds of migrants and refugees trying to enter from Greece on Friday, sealing the frontier to thousands of Syrians, Afghans and others trying to reach western Europe. The Balkan country declared a state of emergency on...

Israel said it killed four Palestinian militants in an air strike on the Syrian Golan Heights on Friday, after cross-border rocket fire from Syria prompted the heaviest Israeli bombardment since the start of Syria's four-year-old civil war. An Israeli defence official said the...

Islamic State militants have demolished a monastery in the central Syrian province of Homs, a monitor said on Thursday, in a strategically located town the jihadist group wrested from government control earlier this month. The group has also transferred several dozen Christians,...

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The United States and its allies launched 16 air strikes on ISIS-held town of Qaryatayn east of Homs, destroying number of civilians buildings, the hardline group said on Thursday, assuring no casualties reported amid its fighters. The hardline group said the U.S.-led raids coincided with...

  A bomb next to the governor's office in the Yemeni city of Aden killed four people on Thursday, witnesses said, and the European Union urged parties to avoid hitting civilian infrastructure after Saudi-led air strikes on Hodeida port. No one claimed...

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras resigned on Thursday, hoping to strengthen his hold on power in snap elections after seven months in office in which he fought Greece's creditors for a better bailout deal but had to cave in. Tsipras submitted his resignation to President Prokopis...

Syrian state TV confirmed Israeli air strikes on the Golan Heights on Thursday, and said only material damage was done. The state TV report quoted a military source as saying that "several missiles" had targeted a transportation center and a public building in the Quneitra area of...

When Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan called a ceasefire with Turkey two years ago, residents of the village of Sigire slaughtered a sheep to celebrate what they believed was the start of a new era of peace. Their homes and orchards in the mountains of northern Iraq had been on...

Islamic State's Egypt affiliate said it was behind a car bombing that wounded 30 people, including 8 policemen, near a state security building and courthouse in a Cairo suburb on Thursday. A statement circulated on Twitter by supporters of the group, Sinai Province, said the bomb was a...

Four members of Hamas' armed wing were abducted in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday after the bus they were on was stopped by unidentified gunmen, sources close to the Palestinian group and Egyptian security officials said. Egypt accuses Hamas of supporting militant groups seeking to...

Syrian rebels on Thursday took two checkpoints in Bloudan resort, the next-door village of Zabadani, a move came to ease the 50-day brutal offensive on the mountainous city to capture it from rebels. Fighters of dominant Ahrar al-Sham movement and the al-Qaeda branch Nusra Front have taken...

Typhoid has broken out among residents of the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, the United Nations said on Wednesday, warning of further disease outbreaks unless aid reached the camp because of the appalling conditions there. Eleven cases of typhoid were confirmed by the U.N....