(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...

French Senate has adopted a resolution calling on the government to recognize the state of Palestine. The draft resolution submitted by the Greens parliamentary group was adopted by 154 votes in favor to 146 votes against on Thursday. Although the...

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