Washington will increase the number of its advisors in Iraq in line with a request by Baghdad, according to an Iraqi government statement issued Wednesday. "The reason for the increase of U.S. advisors in Iraq is to provide the necessary support for the imminent campaign to recapture Mosul...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian and Assad’s warplanes have continued hitting the eastern neighbourhoods of Aleppo, concentrating on vital buildings like hospitals and bakeries, intending to kill as much as possible. Hospital and bakery in the neighbourhood of al-Maadi were targeted according to...

Six PKK terrorists surrendered and two others were captured in Turkey's southeast, the military said Wednesday. A Turkish General Staff statement said six terrorists surrendered themselves to security forces in Silopi district of Sirnak province after having escaped from their shelters in...

From a sandbagged army post near the border with Syria, Lebanese soldiers gaze through tripod-mounted binoculars into hills where jihadist militants are entrenched, a forgotten front in Syria's civil war that has led to bombings inside Lebanon. There is frequent fighting between the army and...