Tekoshin stands on a mountain in north Iraq with a rifle slung over her shoulder and a grenade tucked into her belt, facing jihadists in "a struggle to liberate women". Women have been fighting alongside men in the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to wrest Mount Makhmur in...

The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council accused the United States on Saturday of violating the sovereignty of nations on the "pretext of fighting terrorism" in Iraq and Syria. "On the pretext of fighting terrorism, the United States want to pursue their...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Al Qaeda's Syria wing Nusra Front and other Islamist fighters have taken full control of a border line dividing Syria from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights after capturing many villages in the area, activists said. The fighters,...

With momentum building for international military action against Islamist extremists in Syria, the United States reiterated Friday it will not coordinate with strongman Bashar al-Assad in the effort. "The answer to the security challenges is not the Assad regime," State...