Middle East

Syrian television said on Sunday that Islamist insurgents who seized a key northwestern town had since slaughtered civilians, but monitors…

The Tunisian man accused of piloting a migrant boat that sank off Libya, killing more than 700 people, is himself…

Three suicide car bombs exploded at a border crossing between Iraq and Jordan on Saturday, killing four soldiers, a witness…

The Islamic State in Syria is preventing football fans from wearing T-shirts bearing slogans for the world's most popular football…

Israeli police shot dead a knife-wielding Palestinian who attempted to stab colleagues at an east Jerusalem checkpoint, a spokeswoman said…

Islamist insurgents including Al-Qaeda's wing in Syria Nusra Front on Saturday captured large parts of the northwestern Syrian town of…

Yemen’s former president Ali Abdullah Saleh called on Friday on all Yemenis to return to a political dialogue to end…

The United Nations aid chief urged the Security Council on Friday to impose an arms embargo and sanctions in Syria…

The killing of an American who directed al Qaeda's media campaign from his Pakistani hideout is likely to be a…

 Italian investigators are piecing together a picture of beatings and abuse that hundreds of Africans and Bangladeshis suffered before setting…