(Zaman Alwasl)- The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) declared, in statement issued Tuesday, readiness to fight with Iraqi Army and Peshmerga against Al-Qaeda renegade group in northern Iraq. The armed wing of the Democratic Union Party in...

Iraqi authorities declared a state of emergency in Mosul on Tuesday after the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) took control of the city, while army troops withdrew from their central base, an Al Arabiya News Channel correspondent reported on Tuesday....

(Reuters) - Pakistani television channel Geo News is suing the powerful spy agency for defamation over accusations of being anti-state, it said on Friday, in a move unprecedented in a country where public criticism of the military is taboo. In the latest twist in a saga that...

The next few weeks and months could be decisive in destroying what remains of Syria's weapons of mass destruction. A quarter of the arsenal still remains with Assad and his regime wants to keep enough of that to threaten the world. On Tuesday, Syria’s state-run news agency reported...