CAIRO, ( Aswat Masriya ) – An Egyptian plane was held at the Malmö Airport since early Wednesday after airport authorities discovered that its passengers, of Syrian nationality, carried fake visas to the country, sources from the civil aviation ministry said. A...

(Reuters) - As U.S. fighter jets pound Islamic State targets in Syria , Washington's coalition allies appear increasingly absent from the air war. Although President Barack Obama's administration announced the Syrian air strikes three months ago as a joint campaign by Washington...

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(Reuters) - Hamas and Iran have repaired a close political and military relationship frayed by the Syrian civil war, the Palestinian Islamist group's deputy leader said on Wednesday. Patching up ties with Tehran could ease Hamas's financial and political isolation. Israel is...

(Reuters) - The United States will restore diplomatic relations it severed with Cuba more than 50 years ago, a major policy shift ending decades of hostile ties with the communist-ruled island, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday. Announcing the end of what he called a "rigid"...

(Reuters) - A shocked Pakistan on Wednesday began burying 132 students killed in a grisly attack on their school by Taliban militants that has heaped pressure on the government to do more to tackle the insurgency. People across the country lit candles and staged vigils as...

(Reuters) - More than 120,000 fighters supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have been killed in the country's civil war since it began in 2011, a group monitoring the war said on Wednesday. Syria's conflict began as a peaceful protest movement calling for reforms in 2011...

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  (Reuters) - More than 230 bodies of people believed killed by Islamic State militants have been found in a mass grave in Syria's eastern Deir al-Zor province, activists said on Wednesday. The bodies were thought to be members of the al-Sheitaat tribe which had battled...

UNITED NATIONS, United States: The U.N. Security Council was set to adopt a resolution Wednesday to keep in place permission for U.N. convoys to cross Syrian borders to deliver desperately-needed aid, diplomats said. Resolution 2165, which was adopted July 14, allows trucks to pass through...

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(Reuters) - Spanish and Moroccan police have arrested seven people in a ongoing joint swoop on suspected efforts to recruit women to go to Syria and Iraq to support Islamic State insurgents, the Spanish Interior Ministry said on Tuesday. Spain is among a number of European...

At least 150 women who refused to marry militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, were executed in the western Iraqi province of Al-Anbar, Iraq's Ministry of Human Rights said. According to a ministry statement released Tuesday, ISIL militants carried...

H5N8 virus -- a strain of highly contagious  bird flu -- has been identified at a turkey farm in Lower Saxony's Cloppenburg region.  "The same strain of bird flu has been detected as the one identified in Germany's...

(Anadolu News Agency)- Five independent poll-monitoring agencies have called on young Tunisians to take part in next Sunday's presidential run-off vote. The call was one of five recommendations issued by Tunisian civil society "to ensure the success" of the looming vote, according to a...

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SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Two car bombs exploded south of the Yemeni capital Tuesday, hitting a school bus traveling near a Shiite rebel gathering, killing 25, including at least 15 primary school students, the rebel group said. The Shiite rebels, known as the Houthis, blamed al-Qaida...

(Reuters) - At least 132 students and nine staff members were killed on Tuesday after Taliban gunmen broke into a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar and opened fire, witnesses said, in the bloodiest massacre the country has seen for years. More than eight hours after...

(Reuters) - Around 100 Syrian soldiers and 80 Islamist fighters were killed during a two-day battle in which insurgents captured the Wadi al-Deif military base, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on Tuesday. The Britain-based group said Islamist...