Iraqi forces made major gains in the six months since launching the operation to retake Mosul, but the battle for Iraq's second city and the war against ISIS are far from over. Tough close-quarters fighting in heavily-populated areas of Mosul is still ahead, and ISIS also holds territory in...

Syrian President Bashar Assad is an "arch-terrorist" and it is time Russia realized he is "literally and metaphorically toxic", British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Sunday. Johnson said Assad's ally Moscow still had time to be on the "right side of the argument", in a Sunday...

Turks began voting in a hotly contested referendum Sunday that could place sweeping new powers in the hands of President Tayyip Erdogan and herald the most radical change to the country's political system in its modern history. Opinion polls have given a narrow lead for a "Yes" vote, which...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- “We treated them with respect because they are our kin, and this is what our religion dictates we do. Our mission is humanitarian, and we have taken the Hippocratic oath,” said the director of a field hospital in Aleppo after a suicide car bomb attack on buses...