Iraq's sectarian political leaders have plunged back into a dispute over the status of Shi'ite armed groups, undermining efforts to reunite the country as its troops press on with the assault of Mosul, Islamic State's biggest stronghold. Forty days into the biggest ground offensive in Iraq...

Until three weeks ago, many of Abu Osama's customers were Islamic State militants who brought their wives and children to his pharmacy on the eastern edge of Mosul for injections and treatment. Now, most of them are Iraqi security forces who recaptured the Gogjali neighborhood earlier...

Israeli forces killed four gunmen belonging to an ISIS affiliate in Syria who had opened fire on soldiers in the occupied Golan Heights Sunday, a military spokesman said. Spokesman Peter Lerner told AFP the Israeli soldiers were targeted with machinegun fire and mortars and replied with...

Two mass graves of at least 18 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority, thousands of whom have been killed and kidnapped by ISIS, have been discovered as security forces fight to dislodge the militants from Mosul, a local official said. Kurdish peshmerga forces found the grave near the Shababit...

Firefighters extinguished blazes ravaging Israel and West Bank settlements that forced tens of thousands to flee their homes and saw more than 20 people arrested, authorities said Sunday. "There are no active sites left," fire and rescue service spokesman Yoram Levy told AFP. "Since last...

Wildfires near Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank have forced hundreds to flee their homes, after mass evacuations in Israel and more than a dozen arrests, police said Saturday. Israeli and Palestinian firefighters, helped by foreign aircraft, have been battling dozens of bush...

The Turkish Armed Forces hit 12 Daesh targets in northern Syria on Friday, according to an army statement released Saturday. Free Syrian Army (FSA) special task force soldiers, backed by Turkey, continued land-based attacks to control areas east and west of the city of Al-Bab. The moves...

Iraqi military and hospital officials say mortar rounds fired by ISIS militants have killed 16 civilians in neighborhoods already retaken by troops. They said the bodies of the 16, killed overnight and early Saturday, have been brought to military hospitals in eastern Mosul. The...

Foreign firefighting planes on Friday helped Israel tackle a wave of wildfires that have forced tens of thousands to flee their homes, as police announced a dozen related arrests. Faced for the past four days with blazes across the country fed by drought and high winds, Israel received...

Jury members for the third Istanbul Photo Awards 2017 -- the international news and sports photography contest organized by Anadolu Agency -- were revealed Saturday. As in past years, the jury for this year's contest is composed of some of the most prestigious names in the field of...

Iraqi forces on Thursday imposed a curfew in parts of eastern Mosul recently captured from the Daesh terrorist group, according to a military source. "On Thursday morning, the army imposed a curfew in the Kokjali area, one of the first neighborhoods in eastern Mosul to be retaken from...

Fears of possible sectarian conflict continued to mount on Friday as Shia militiamen surround northern Iraq’s Daesh-held, Sunni-majority city of Tal Afar. Fighters from the Hashd al-Shaabi, an umbrella group of pro-government Shia militias, now surround the city -- populated mainly by ethnic...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday threatened to allow migrants to cross Turkey's borders after the European Parliament voted to back a freeze in membership talks with Ankara. "Listen to me. If you go any further, then the frontiers will be opened, bear that in mind," the Turkish president told...

(Ma’an News Agency)- The World Bank denounced the worsening water crisis in the Gaza Strip, calling the situation in the besieged Palestinian enclave “alarming” on Wednesday. In a statement released by the World Bank, senior water and sanitation specialist Adnan Ghosheh stated that only 10...

Turkish warplanes carried out air strikes on the Syrian city of al-Bab held by Islamic State on Friday, the military said in a statement, after four Turkish soldiers were killed in the area over the past two days. The air strikes shortly before 8 a.m. (0500 GMT) destroyed buildings believed...

 Iraqi hospital and police officials say the death toll from a car bombing south of Baghdad claimed by the ISIS has risen to 73, including about 40 Iranian pilgrims. The officials said Friday that 65 people were wounded in the attack. Earlier, they had put the death toll from the...

(The Daily Star)- The Future Movement’s parliamentary bloc issued a statement Thursday calling for solidarity with Syrian refugees in Lebanon, state media reported. “[With regards] to the Syrian displaced brethren, and in particular, the dismantling of some encampments where they are staying...

A suicide bomber detonated his car bomb at a gas station in al-Hilla city, 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 12 civilians and wounding 10 more, police and medical sources say. The attack took place at gas station with an adjacent restaurant used by Iranian...

MODI'IN, Israel An easterly wind whipped up more forest and brush fires across Israel and the West Bank on Thursday, temporarily forcing the closure of a highway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and a senior minister said he suspected many blazes were deliberate. A lack of rain combined with...

(The Daily Star)- Iraqi Kurdish and Shiite forces agreed to coordinate movements after cutting off Mosul from the rest of the territory held by ISIS in western Iraq and Syria in support of a U.S-backed offensive to capture the city, U.S. and Iraqi officials said on Thursday. The agreement...