(Zaman Al Wasl)- So-called “Secure smuggling” operations are active from Syria to Turkey via cross points which may or may not be official between Turkey and Syria in northern Syria in exchange for a sum exceeding $1500. Um Mohamed tells Zaman al-Wasl that she crossed with her four sons...

Militant group Islamic State said on Tuesday that fighters loyal to its movement attacked a police training college in Quetta in southwest Pakistan in a raid that officials said killed 59 people and wounded more than 100. Pakistani authorities have blamed another militant group,...

An elite unit of the Iraqi army paused its week-long advance on Mosul as it approached the city's eastern edge on Tuesday, waiting for other U.S.-backed forces to close in on Islamic State's last major urban stronghold in Iraq. Seeking to relieve pressure on their forces controlling the...

Iraqi counter-terrorism forces have recaptured two more villages east of Mosul from the Daesh terrorist group, military sources said Tuesday. "Iraq’s Anti-Terrorism Agency has managed to restore the villages of Khazna and Tob Zawa," Saad al-Lehebi, a major in the Iraqi army’s Nineveh...