Iraq's paramilitary Hashed al-Shaabi forces said Saturday that they had retaken all areas west of Mosul from ISIS except the town of Tal Afar. The umbrella organisation, which is dominated by Iran-backed Shiite militias, has been fighting primarily on a separate western front since the...

 Fighting between rival tribesmen in southern Iran left 22 people dead on Friday night, an Iranian lawmaker was quoted by ILNA news agency as saying on Saturday. "The incident last night in Ramhormoz county (in Khuzestan province) is rooted in an old tribal conflict," the lawmaker,...

A Turkish court has formally arrested Amnesty International's chairman in the country pending trial on charges of membership in a terror organization, Turkey's official Anadolu news agency said Saturday. The rights group called it a "mockery of justice." Taner Kilic was arrested in the...

Iranian authorities have arrested seven people suspected of helping militants involved in this week's attacks in the capital Tehran, a judiciary official said on Saturday. ISIS claimed responsibility for the suicide bombings and gun attacks on parliament and the mausoleum of the Islamic...