BAGHDAD: U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter arrived in Iraq Saturday to meet with his commanders and assess progress in the opening days of...
BAGHDAD: U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter arrived in Iraq Saturday to meet with his commanders and assess progress in the opening days of...
BAGHDAD: The Iraqi army launched an operation on Saturday to take Qaraqosh, a Christian town near Mosul, the last major city stronghold of...
KIRKUK, Iraq: Iraqi police say a massive Islamic State assault on targets in and around the northern city of Kirkuk has come to...
The Shia Houthi militant group and factions supporting ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh has violated a UN-backed truce 897 times, Saudi Media reported...
Aleppo, Syria: Security concerns forced the UN to delay planned evacuations from Syria's Aleppo, it said, as Russia extended a truce that was...
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...