The Italian coastguard have boarded and taken control of a ship carrying 450 migrants, which was abandoned by its crew off Italy’s coast.
The Assad regime have detained more than 215,000 Syrians since the uprising began in 2012, according to a new report.
Iranian aircraft have been used to bomb Islamic State positions within Iraq, a US official has confirmed, but the action was not coordinated with US forces.
Lebanese security forces have detained a wife and son of the secretive leader of the Islamic State (IS) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, after they were discovered in a town near the Syrian border.
A couple have been arrested as they returned to the UK on suspicion of committing terrorism in Syria.