Geneva: An estimated 12,500 people have fled the northern Iraqi town of Hawija since the September launch of a military operation to dislodge...
Geneva: An estimated 12,500 people have fled the northern Iraqi town of Hawija since the September launch of a military operation to dislodge...
Beirut: The Islamic State group on Tuesday claimed a bomb attack at a police station in Syria's capital Damascus a day earlier that...
ERBIL, Iraq: Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region plans to hold presidential and parliamentary elections on Nov. 1, said Erbil-based Rudaw TV, citing the votes'...
Erbil: Iran deployed a dozen tanks supported by artillery at the border with Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region yesterday, a Kurdish official said, adding...
Washington: The alleged mastermind of the 2012 attacks on a US outpost in Benghazi, Libya, despises America and when his hatred “boiled over,”...
Beit Hanun: Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah arrived in Gaza yesterday for his first visit in two years, saying the Palestinian Authority would...
MOSCOW: Fifteen people were killed in an attack on a police station in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Monday, Russia's RIA news...
BAGHDAD: Islamic State militants set fire to three oil wells near Hawija, west of the oil city of Kirkuk, one of two areas...
Beirut: A drone strike on Monday killed at least eight members of the powerful Hezbollah militia in Syria, where the Lebanese group is...
Baghdad: Iraq on Monday authorised foreigners stranded in Iraqi Kurdistan after an international flight ban to leave the country via Baghdad despite not...
Ramallah: Israel imposed an 11-day closure on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip for the Jewish Sukkot holiday starting midnight Tuesday through...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi forces recaptured late on Sunday, a military airport and 25 villages in Iraq’s northern city of Kirkuk from IS terrorists, according...
Washington: A roadside bomb blast killed a military member of the US-led coalition in Iraq fighting the Islamic State group, the US military...
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories: Egyptian delegates arrived in Gaza Sunday on the eve of a fresh attempt at reconciliation between the strip's Hamas...
Ankara: President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that his country no longer needs to join the European Union but will not unilaterally...
Benghazi, Libya: Benghazi port in east Libya reopened Sunday for the first time in three years after being forced to cease operations because...
DAMASCUS: A 2,000-year old statue badly damaged by Islamic State in Palmyra went on display on Sunday in Damascus after being restored. The...
Beirut: Syria's war killed at least 3,000 people including 955 civilians in September, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said Sunday, in...
