A high level Syrian army delegation held talks in Baghdad with Iraqi counterparts on border security in the first public visit of its kind in years to coordinate the fight against ISIS, the Iraqi defense ministry said on Wednesday. The Syrian army last week reached the Iraqi border in a move...

Reporting by Faris Rifai (Eqtsad)- The situation of Syrian refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan seems to be better than that of their peers in the neighboring countries of asylum, although they suffer from the material hardship that has been going on for years after the budget cut by...

The Syrian regime army and Iran-backed militia forces have escalated attacks against a rebel-held part of the southern city of Deraa, a possible prelude to a large-scale campaign to wrest full control of the city, rebels and residents said on Monday. The intensive raids and bombing strikes...

Iraq's paramilitary Hashed al-Shaabi forces said Saturday that they had retaken all areas west of Mosul from ISIS except the town of Tal Afar. The umbrella organisation, which is dominated by Iran-backed Shiite militias, has been fighting primarily on a separate western front since the...