(Reuters) - Kurdish forces attacked Islamic State fighters near the Kurdish regional capital of Arbil in northern Iraq on Wednesday in a change of tactics supported by the Iraqi central government to try to break the Islamists' momentum. The attack 40 km (25 miles) southwest of...

  Reporting by Al Hussein Al Shishakli (Zaman Alwasl- Special)- Syrian opposition’s National Coalition offices in the United States will be closed in two weeks over allegation of violating American laws for fiscal dealing, a...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States informed the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that it has neutralized about 60 percent of Syria's most toxic chemicals. British Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant, the current president of the Security Council, said the U.S. made the report...

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese state media say clashes have broken out in a border town held by Islamic extremists from neighboring Syria after a negotiated truce collapsed overnight. The cease-fire, mediated by Muslim clerics, was meant to help end four days of fighting in the town of...