U.S.-led coalition and Iraqi forces plan to launch an operation in  Mosul  as early as April to retake the city from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, a U.S. official said Thursday. U.S. troops have been engaged in a months-long...

The number of internally displaced families fleeing conflict in  Iraq  has reached 521,000 according to a government official on Friday. “The last statistic shows 521,000 internally displaced families. More than 2.6 million internally displaced persons exist if the average...

Reporting by Mohamed al-Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Christian community was extremely provoked after arresting the prominent religious figure Gabriel Dawood and his bodyguards in the Christian neighborhood in the city of...

(Reuters) - Yemen's feuding parties have agreed on a "people's transitional council" to help govern the country and guide it out of a political crisis, U.N. mediator Jamal Benomar announced on Friday. The move follows the takeover of power by the Houthi movement, a Shi'ite...