Russia has supplied weapons to Iraqi Kurds, the first shipment arrived on March 14, RIA news agency quoted the Russian consulate in Iraq as saying on Wednesday. The supply included five Zu-23-2 anti-aircraft cannons and 20,000 shells for the cannons, RIA said.

Kurdish Peshmerga forces, an Iran-backed Shi'ite militia and Iraq's army will launch an offensive soon to push Islamic State fighters away from the northern oil region of Kirkuk, a state newspaper reported on Wednesday. The operation would bring the combined forces closer to...

Armed Belgian police, with French support, were hunting one or more fleeing gunmen who wounded three officers during a raid on Tuesday in Brussels linked to the investigation of November's Islamist attacks in Paris, officials said. A southern section of the city was sealed off by police,...

Turkish authorities declared a curfew in a neighborhood of southeast Turkey's largest city Diyarbakir on Tuesday to fight Kurdish militants in the area, local officials announced as clashes broke out in the area. The curfew was imposed in the Kaynartepe neighborhood of...