The United Nations' top official in Iraq and the country's most senior cleric urged authorities on Monday to get "serious" about reforms after anti-government demonstrations that have left hundreds dead. Mass rallies calling for an overhaul of the ruling system have rocked the capital...

At least 198 soldiers of Turkey-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) have been killed during attacks by the PKK's Syrian affiliate, the People's Protection Units (YPG), terrorists since the launch of the Ankara-led anti-terror operation in northern Syria last month. According to the SNA...

The Turkish president on Sunday said 365,000 refugees have returned to their homeland in northern Syria. The Syrian refugees returned to the regions that Turkey has made safe through its anti-terror operations, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, speaking at Bestepe National Congress and Culture...

Tehran and Moscow inaugurated on Sunday a new phase of construction for a second reactor at Iran's sole nuclear power plant in Bushehr on the Gulf coast. Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), and deputy chief of Russia's nuclear agency Rosatom, Alexander...