"A good part" of Syrian Kurdish fighters have withdrawn from the Syrian city of Manbij, a Turkish deputy prime minister said on Thursday. Turkey has repeatedly insisted that the Syrian Kurdish YPG and PYD should quit Manbij, something that both they and the United States have said has...

A total of 1,600 Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters have been killed since the start on October 17 of a huge offensive to retake the extremist bastion of Mosul, a spokesman said Thursday. Close to 10,000 peshmerga were also wounded in the six weeks of fierce fighting to oust ISIS from Iraq's...

Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc Thursday renewed calls for Cabinet that is formed quickly and represents all of Lebanon’s political factions. In a statement following the bloc’s weekly meeting, MP Hasan Fadlallah said that “prominent political factions in the country should show their...

Turkey arrested 365 suspected Daesh terrorists last month, the Interior Ministry said Thursday. The arrests -- which have led to 131 suspects being remanded in custody to face trial -- took place in 12 provinces across the country, including Ankara and Istanbul, in November, the ministry...