Citizens of seven mainly Muslim countries who were banned from the United States by President Donald Trump can resume boarding U.S.-bound flights, the U.S. government said on Saturday, after a Seattle judge blocked his executive order. The ruling gave hope to many travellers and sent...

A commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guards has said the country would use missiles to defend itself from its "enemies". It followed hostile rhetoric from US President Donald Trump, after he said on Twitter that Iran was "playing with fire" and announced fresh sanctions on the country. Head of...

(The Telegraph)- Receipts from taxi rides, ledgers listing internet usage for the privileged few and random logbooks documenting an ever tighter economy are just some of the documents that Islamic State militants left behind when they fled eastern Mosul in the face of advancing Iraqi forces....

Turkey hit 59 ISIS targets and killed 51 militants in northern Syria as part of its ongoing incursion, the Turkish military said on Saturday. Turkish forces have surrounded the ISIS-controlled town of al-Bab for weeks as part of an operation that has been going on for more than five months....

Islamic State militants in Iraq are steadily losing ground. Iraqi forces successfully recaptured the eastern side of Mosul from the militants, forcing the group from Mosul University and advancing to the east bank of the Tigris River which divides the city in two. All of Mosul's bridges...

Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Friday world powers must work with Damascus to create safe zones in Syria so refugees can return to their country. It was the first time the Beirut government had lent its support to such a plan. At least a million people have fled the Syrian civil war...

Al-Qaeda in Yemen has taken over three southern towns just days after a deadly U.S. special operations raid targeting its commanders, a security official and tribal sources said Friday. The militant advance into the Abyan province towns of Loder, Shaqra and Ahwar came as the White House...

The U.S.-led coalition is planning for the day when Iraq will be free of ISIS, ramping up training of a future Mosul police force - even as the battle for the rest of the city is briefly on hold. Sometime during the lull, significant numbers of the security forces are expected to move into...

(Daily Mail)- ISIS have amputated the hands of two boys aged ten and 12 who refused to execute two civilians in front of their families in Mosul. Fanatics trained up a group of children from its stronghold in western parts of the city to fight against advancing Iraqi troops. But two...

 The White House warned the Israeli government Thursday to stop announcing plans to build new settlements in the occupied West Bank, appearing to open a breach in the extraordinarily warm relationship between President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu....

(New York Times)- “The age of the war correspondent as hero,” Phillip Knightley famously wrote in his book “The First Casualty,” “appears to be over.” According to Knightley, Vietnam was the high-water mark for the self-mythologizing and self-aggrandizing descendants of the war correspondent...

Civilians were "likely" killed in a US commando raid in Yemen over the weekend and children may have been among the dead, the US military's Central Command said. The January 29 raid against Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has garnered wide attention because a Navy SEAL was also killed and...

The United States has warned Palestinian leaders there will be harsh consequences for suing Israel in international courts, including steps against the Palestinian Authority, according to Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Wednesday. Palestinian side were told that suing Israel in international...

Five alleged leaked phone conversations between Egypt’s president and foreign minister appear to shed fresh light on Egypt’s rocky relations with Saudi Arabia. One of the alleged leaked conversations between President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and FM Sameh Shoukry -- broadcast Tuesday by the Muslim...

Hundreds of Iraqi civilians have fled "liberated" areas of eastern Mosul amid ongoing rocket attacks by Daesh terrorists, according to local security sources. "Hundreds of families have fled their homes in northeastern Mosul," Iraqi Police Brigadier-General Omran Mohamed told Anadolu Agency...

Israeli police began evicting dozens of hardline Jewish settlers from a wildcat outpost on Wednesday, just hours after unveiling plans for 3,000 new homes in other West Bank settlements. Hundreds of officers marched into the Amona outpost near Ramallah to carry out the evictions ordered by...

Israel announced Tuesday night the construction of 3,000 settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, the fourth such announcement in the less than two weeks since the inauguration of US President Donald Trump. "Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have...

A young Syrian girl whose heartfelt offer to donate her eyes to her blinded father touched the world met President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday. Dema Nasir, whose father Mamoon Khaled Nasir also lost his legs and several fingers in a barrel bomb attack, was greeted by Erdogan and his wife...

(Daily Mail)- These chilling pictures inside newly-liberated eastern Mosul show the bodies of dead ISIS fighters laying rotting in the streets.  On the banks of the Tigris River, just 600 metres from active ISIS positions, waste water trickles around a militant's corpse, lying rotting...

An Iraqi lawmaker who has campaigned prominently for fellow Yazidi women enslaved by ISIS group said Tuesday that new US travel restrictions may prevent her from accepting a human rights award. Vian Dakhil had been due to travel to Washington to receive the Lantos Human Rights Prize next...