The American benchmark for crude oil price has dipped below the $60 per barrel mark, its lowest point in five years, on Thursday. West Texas Intermediate dropped to $59.88 per barrel at 1930GMT, its lowest point since July 2009. ...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists have circulated online video showing how Syrian rebels and Islamist battalions stormed regime bases in the embattled town of Daraya west Damascus during this week, taking control on few points after violent...
(Anadolu News Agency)- ISIL launched a counter-attack on Thursday, resulting in it controlling two areas in the western Iraqi province of Anbar. The areas are close to Baghdadi town, located around 13 miles west of Hit city in Anbar governorate....
Germany has announced it is considering sending around 100 soldiers to northern Iraq to train peshmerga forces who are fighting the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL. Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer told journalists at the Federal...
