WASHINGTON: The deepening U.S. military involvement against Islamic State militants in northern Syria indicates the Pentagon will likely send even more troops in...
MOSUL: Aid convoys linked to paramilitary groups have begun making regular deliveries to Mosul districts recaptured from Islamic State, bringing much-needed relief but...
BARTELLA, Iraq: The 9-year-old Iraqi boy was playing football on a patch of wasteground during a lull in the battle for Mosul when...
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia executed two convicted drug traffickers on Thursday, bringing the number of prisoners killed in the kingdom to 20 so far...
Geneva: About 600,000 people remain in the areas of west Mosul held by the Islamic State group, including 400,000 who are "trapped" in...
Cairo: Ten Egyptian soldiers were killed in two roadside bombings as they clashed with Islamic State group jihadists in the Sinai Peninsula, the...
ANKARA: A court on Thursday remanded 44 suspects who worked at a leading Turkish defense manufacturer for allegedly being members of the Fetullah...
BAGHDAD: The Iraqi army Wednesday announced the recapture of two more villages of western Mosul from the IS terrorist group. “The army’s 9th...
ALEPPO, Syria: Hundreds of Syrian civilians were reportedly killed in two U.S.-led coalition airstrikes in northern Raqqah province, according to local sources who...
CAIRO: Egyptian authorities Wednesday confiscated around 150 historical Palestinian coins in a parcel coming from Israel, according to a shipping source at Cairo...
SIRTE, Libya: UN envoy to Libya Martin Kobler on Wednesday voiced his “deep concern” over continued reports of “serious” rights violations being committed...
CAIRO: An Egyptian court Wednesday slapped six former police officers with prison terms after finding them guilty of having tortured a citizen to...
Beirut: Syrian jihadists and allied rebels advanced against government forces in central Hama province on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor...
Washington: French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said that his country was hoping for specific answers for a couple of weeks from the US...
ANKARA: One Turkish soldier was killed and four were wounded in an armed attack by Kurdish militants in Turkey's southeastern province of Hakkari,...
ANKARA: President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Europeans would not be able to walk safely on the streets if they kept up...
Moscow: Russian Minister of Foreign Sergey Lavrov met on Wednesday with United Nations (UN) Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura, a day...
