(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition has stepped up its aerial campaign on Raqqa city in suppoart of Kurdish militia days before launching major offensive to expel ISIS from the de facto capital of the caliphate. Local monitoring group, Raqaa Is being Slaughtered Silently said coalition...

Iraq's Iran-backed Shi'ite paramilitary force said on Sunday it had dislodged Islamic State from a number of villages west of Mosul, scoring further progress toward the border with Syria. The villages taken by the Popular Mobilisation paramilitary force include Kojo, where Islamic State...

 British police said on Sunday they had arrested a 14th person in connection with the Manchester suicide bombing, and were searching a property in the south of the city. The 25-year-old man was arrested in the southwest of Manchester "on suspicion of offences contrary to the terrorism...

Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika sacked his tourism minister Sunday days after he was appointed to the post, the presidency said, with one television channel claiming he had a criminal record. A terse statement from the presidency, carried by the APS news agency, did not say why...