Kurdish authorities said on Tuesday they suspected a homemade rocket fired by Islamic State at their Peshmerga forces in northern Iraq contained chemical substances, accusing the Islamist insurgents of an increasing use of chemical weapons, Reuters reported. The Kurdistan Region's...

 The United States remains Iran's "number one enemy" despite a recent nuclear deal with world powers, the chief of Tehran's top clerical body said Tuesday, Iranian media reported. The Assembly of Experts is among Iran's most influential institutions, comprising 86 elected clerics...

  Aleppo's Sharia Court, the higher judiciary body in rebel-held areas in the northern city, said on Monday all commercial and financial transactions will be in Turkish Lira instead of Syrian Pound by September 5, a move may undermine the value of Syrian (Lira) and to record a new setback...

(Reuters)- Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Monday the U.S.-led coalition's campaign against Islamic State was not doing as well as had been hoped in Syria and parts of Iraq. Harper also said Canada, one of the nations helping Iraq to fight the group also known as...