Iraq's Vice President Usama al-Nujayfi called for more military support ahead of a planned attack for retrieving Mosul, the second largest city in the country, from ISIL control. "For us to go into this war strongly, we need to receive more reinforcement," said Nujayfi, in...

 Hayat Boumeddiene, dubbed as France’s most wanted woman, is in Syria and went there before this week’s deadly attacks, French media report. Reports in French dailies Le Monde, Le Figaro and other French media said on the Saturday that...

   At least 30 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants and four Iraqi Peshmerga fighters were killed in clashes in northern Iraq Saturday, a Peshmerga source said. All the casualties took place in Kuwair village located 40 miles (65 kilometers) south of Erbil city....

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The tragedy of people under siege in southern Damascus is getting worse with Syria's harsh winter and cold weather, with closing the only crossing point to area, the situation reached to unprecedented levels of difficulty....