United Nations, United States: The Syrian army attacked the village of Qmenas with chemical weapons in March 2015, UN experts said in a...
United Nations, United States: The Syrian army attacked the village of Qmenas with chemical weapons in March 2015, UN experts said in a...
ANKARA: Turkey and Iraq have reached an agreement in principle that could eventually allow a Turkish role in the campaign to retake Mosul...
Kirkuk, Iraq: An air strike killed 15 women on Friday at a shrine near the city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, local officials...
Riyadh: Rebel violations mean there is "no ceasefire" in Yemen, the spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition said on Thursday, the first day of...
EAST AND NORTH OF MOSUL, Iraq: The offensive to seize back Mosul from Islamic State is going faster than planned, Iraq’s prime minister...
ISTANBUL/BEIRUT: Turkish air strikes pounded a group of Kurdish fighters allied to a U.S.-backed militia in northern Syria overnight, highlighting the conflicting agendas...
Washington: The United States and Saudi Arabia Thursday imposed sanctions on alleged Hezbollah members and financial backers, accusing them of funneling money to...
Beirut: Former general Michel Aoun, who once waged a "war of liberation" against Syria but later allied with pro-Damascus Hezbollah, is poised to...
Nawaran, Iraq: Kurdish forces launched a major assault Thursday on a town held by the Islamic State group near Mosul, opening a new...
Beirut: Lebanon's former prime minister Saad Hariri on Thursday endorsed the presidential bid of political rival Michel Aoun, paving the way for the...
Beirut: Syria's one-time economic hub, Aleppo and the surrounding countryside have suffered some of the heaviest fighting of the five-year civil war that...
JERUSALEM: The Israeli army has shut down a print shop in the Arab town of Al-Ram on Jerusalem’s outskirts for alleged "incitement", according...
Geneva: The United Nations said it hopes to carry out the first medical evacuations from eastern Aleppo on Friday after it got clearance...
Nairobi: A British journalist arrested in Mogadishu while on a reporting assignment has been released by Somalian security forces, his employer Al-Jazeera said...
SANAA: Parties to the war in Yemen for the most part adhered to a 72-hour truce that began just before midnight on Wednesday...
Jerusalem: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed concern President Barack Obama may take action Israel opposes at the United Nations before leaving office...
Aleppo, Syria: A "humanitarian pause" took effect Thursday in the Syrian army's Russian-backed assault on rebel-held areas of Aleppo but it was quickly...
Aleppo, Syria: A "humanitarian pause" announced by Russia went into effect on Thursday in the Syrian army's devastating Moscow-backed assault on rebel-held areas...
