A U.S. warship fired warning shots at the weekend at four Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessels that approached it at high speed in the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. defense officials said Monday. The shots fired by the destroyer USS Mahan Sunday put an end to the incident, which U.S. officials...

(Eqtsad)- The suffering of al-Waer neighborhood in central Homs city has mounted due to lack of food and severe siege imposed by the Syrian regime for over four months. The regime has cut off all means of livelihood available to the people of al-Waer, and all food products including bread...

The U.N.'s agency for Palestinian refugees Monday appealed for emergency funds to provide aid to nearly half a million Palestinians affected by the war in Syria. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, said almost all the estimated 450,000 Palestinian refugees still inside Syria...

Iraqi forces will recapture east Mosul from ISIS within "a few days," a senior officer said Monday. Baghdad's forces have retaken a series of areas in eastern Mosul since launching an operation to recapture the city on Oct. 17, but the west remains under ISIS control. East Mosul will be...