Iraqi security forces walk during patrol in the city of Ramadi, February 3, 2016. Picture taken February 3, 2016. REUTERS The Hague: The...
Iraqi security forces walk during patrol in the city of Ramadi, February 3, 2016. Picture taken February 3, 2016. REUTERS The Hague: The...
A general view of the upper parliament chamber is pictured in Algiers, Algeria February 2, 2016. REUTERS Algiers: Algeria's parliament is expected to...
Syrian refugees walk near the Syrian-Turkish border near a refugee camp in Bab Al-Salama city, northern Syria, 06 February 2016. EPA/SEDAT SUNA Amsterdam:...
Employees work at strengthening the Mosul Dam in northern Iraq, February 3, 2016. Reuters/Azad Lashkari BAGHDAD: Iraq’s minister of water resources on Saturday...
Bahman Daroshafaei By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin DUBAI: The family of an Iranian-British former BBC journalist who was detained last week in Tehran were told...
File photo Beirut: Thousands of Syrians braved the cold and rain Saturday at the Turkish border after fleeing a Russian-backed regime assault on...
People gather outside the camp of the 19th Infantry Brigade after it was seized by al-Qaeda fighters on February 12 2015 in Baihan...
The Habur border crossing along the Turkish-Iraqi border in 2014. AFP, Ilyas Akengin Istanbul: Turkey has tightened its visa rules for Iraqi citizens...
Children look at seized weapons from the Islamic State group on September 6, 2015 in Kobane, northern Syria. AFP, Yasin Akgul Qamishli, Syria:...
Refugee children at a camp near the Turkish border crossing on February 6, 2016 in Bab-Al Salam, near Azaz in northern Syria. AFP,...
Jerusalem: The Israeli army Saturday said it was lifting a blockade imposed on the West Bank town of Qabatiya, from where Palestinians carried...
President Hafez al-Asad with his family in the early 1970s. From left to right: Bashar, Maher, Mrs Anisa Makhlouf (the then new First...
One of the trenches dug along the Libyan border, near the Ras Jedir crossing point on February 6, 2016 that is part of...
Haitham Ismail Mohammed, 14-year-old Hebron: Israeli occupation soldiers killed a 14-year-old Palestinian and detained another young boy in the occupied West Bank town...
Iranian women wait in line outside a polling station during the Iranian presidential election in Tehran. (file photo) Tehran: Iran has approved an...
Damascus: Syria's government warned Saturday against any foreign ground intervention in its war after reports that Saudi Arabia and Turkey, which both support...
Ramallah: Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah on Saturday condenmed the "collective punishment" imposed by Israel on residents of Qabatiya, blockaded for the third...
Mogadishu: Somali government troops and African Union peacekeepers on Saturday recaptured the key port of Merka from Shebab insurgents, just one day after...