Baghdad, June 15 (IANS) Kurdish forces took control of a border crossing point with Syria, as Iraqi security forces fought insurgent groups trying to seize an ethnically mixed city in the country's northern province of Nineveh, military sources said Sunday. The Kurdish forces,...

BEIRUT (Reuters): Syrian government forces, assisted by Hezbollah, have retaken the village of Kasab on the border with Turkey and in the coastal heartland of President Bashar Assad's Alawite minority sect, an activist group and state media said. The withdrawal of most rebel...

Pro-Russian separatists shot down an army transport plane in east Ukraine on Saturday, killing 49 servicemen and dealing a blow to a military campaign to defeat the rebels and hold the country together. President Petro Poroshenko summoned his security chiefs for consultations and...

 (Al Arabiya News)- Egyptian police have arrested seven men for sexually assaulting women at celebrations marking President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s inauguration, after outrage sparked by a graphic video of the attacks which circulated on social...