U.S.-backed Syrian fighters battling ISIS pushed closer to the Old City in the militant stronghold of Raqqa on Monday, a monitor said. The Kurdish and Arab fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces entered Raqqa for the first time almost a week ago, after months of battle to encircle the...

Police in Singapore have detained a preschool assistant who shared pro-ISIS materials online and intended to travel to Syria, their first arrest of a female alleged sympathizer of the radical group. The Home Affairs Ministry said in a statement Monday that 22-year-old Syaikhah Izzah Zahrah...

( Middle East Eye )- "It's difficult to see how things won't get any worse; it's going to get a lot worse before it gets any better." That was the stark warning given to me by a senior official from the Middle East who was sent by his country's leader to try to mediate between Qatar and...

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...