Syria

Greek coast guard officers rescued 213 migrants during operations off various Aegean islands on Saturday night.

The six rescues took place off Kos, Chios and Lesvos. Authorities do not believe any people are missing.

Turkey's three leading opposition parties slammed the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) over what they portrayed as a weakened democracy, worsened economy and botched Syria policy during their May 30 rallies.

Turkish PM Davuto?lu said he could not comment fully because of 'state secrecy,' but said Turkey provided the Syrian people and the Free Syrian Army with assistance, without specifying whether the aid was of a military nature.

A growing number of extremist groups from Africa to southeast Asia are shifting their allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, leading to greater risks for "cross-pollination" among conflicts beyond Syria and Iraq, the head of Interpol said May 29.
                   

The United States dropped Cuba from its blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism on May 29, removing yet another hurdle as the two countries seek to restore diplomatic ties frozen for five decades.
  

The fall of Ramadi to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) troops last Sunday [May 17] was not a big deal. The city was deep inside ISIL-held territory, ISIL fighters had controlled 80 percent of it since March, and we already knew that the Iraqi army can't fight.

?Knowing what you?ve got, knowing what you need, knowing what you can do without. That?s inventory control.?

This sentence was uttered by Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie ?Revolutionary Road.? 

The blind man with just one hand arrived at the main mosque in the centre of the Iraqi city of Ramadi at dusk on May 27, flanked by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters. 

Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirta? celebrated opening a soda can during his meeting with Turkish humorists and cartoonists in Istanbul, teasing President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s successive inauguration meetings on the run up to the June 7 elections. 

The Syrian army has retreated from the northwestern town of Ariha, after a coalition of anti-government forces took over this last Idlib fortress.

The anti-government forces are mostly comprised of the al-Nusra front, an Al Qaeda offshoot.