René Wildangel takes a look at who exactly are the Islamists that drove Syrian dictator Assad from the country.

Freed from the Assad family and its apparatus of cruel repression, Syrians remain euphoric about the sudden collapse of a ...

The German government is not planning to bring members of the terrorist militia Islamic State with German citizenship who are ...

NATO ally Turkey has emerged as the dominant state power in a new Syria, and is seeking to press its advantage by bombing and ...

A high-ranking member of the Islamic State militant group in Syria has been charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity in Germany, partly for alleged involvement in the genocide against the ...

A bus trip to Baghdad in the late 1950s began Dr. Marr’s path to become one of the leading American experts on Iraq.

But since he and his fellow jihadists advanced from Idlib, their northern enclave, and toppled the Assads on December 8th, ...

An Austrian woman has been kidnapped by gunmen in Niger’s Agadez city, local residents and the Austrian Foreign Ministry said ...

An Austrian woman has been kidnapped in the northern Niger city of Agadez, Vienna's foreign ministry said on Sunday.

Saudi Arabia has urged top European diplomats at a gathering to lift sanctions against Syria to boost rebuilding the country ...

Their loved ones were slaughtered by Islamic extremists or government-affiliated fighters. Their villages were attacked, ...

An Austrian woman was kidnapped in the desert town of Agadez in central Niger on Saturday, two Nigerien security sources said.