The Syrian transitional government is launching its first crackdown on political dissidents following an “ambush” by militants loyal to the old regime. A group of combatants still loyal to deposed ...

With hostile Turkish-backed groups mobilising against them in Syria's north, and Damascus ruled by a group friendly to Ankara, Syria's main Kurdish factions are on the back foot as they seek to ...

German authorities said they received tipoffs last year about the suspect in a car attack at a Christmas market in Magdeburg as more details emerged on Sunday about the five people killed.

The Saudi suspect behind the deadly car attack on a Christmas market in Germany is believed to be “Islamophobic”, the ...

The death toll rose to five with 200 injured and could rise higher from Friday's evening's Christmas market car attack in ...

Taleb A. has been identified as the man who was arrested after a BMW slammed into a crowd in the city of Magdeburg, killing ...

A mass car accident took place at the Christmas market in Magdeburg, central Germany, on Friday. The details of the Islamist ...

In the Assad clan's former heartland of Latakia, many in the toppled president's Alawite minority are relieved that his iron-clad rule has come to an end. But they fear marginalisation -- and even ...

In both cases, religion was framed as a bulwark against Western liberal values, with Jewish piety inadvertently bolstering the argument for Islamism’s revival. While the rise of Jewish piety was ...

The Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has long been suspected of receiving funding from terrorist groups and terror-supporting countries. Now, a federal magistrate has ruled that it ...