The Iraqi army said on Sunday it had secured the first safe exit route for civilians to leave Islamic State's besieged stronghold Falluja, and a Norwegian aid group said thousands of people had already used it to flee in the first day it was open. Iraq has launched a major operation to...

Iraqi troops attacked ISIS positions south of Mosul Sunday as the U.S.-led coalition intensifies its campaign against the militants on multiple fronts across their self-proclaimed caliphate. Officers involved in the operation said Iraqi forces had advanced in tanks and armored vehicles towards...

 Italy's coast guard said on Saturday it had picked up at sea 1,348 migrants in 11 rescue operations between Sicily and North Africa, bringing the total number of people saved over the past three days to more than 3,000. Two thousand people were rescued on Thursday when the coast guard...

Reporting by Omar Sheikh Mohamed; Translation by Rana Abdul (Eqtsad)- Farmers in Daraa province in southern Syria have started to harvest their crops early this year, as they have for most of the years of the Syrian revolution. They harvest them early for fear of fires consuming them whether...