The small town of Abassan in the Gaza Strip is a tough place to infiltrate everyone knows everyone else and outsiders passing through quickly attract attention. So when strangers drove through town, suspicious Hamas security men stopped the van and questioned those inside.The answers didn’t...

The United States wants to continue support to the Arab coalition in Yemen's war and will remain engaged in efforts to combat Iranian influence and Islamist militancy in the Arab state, a State Department official said Sunday. Since the Oct 2. murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal...

A year after it was routed from Iraq in a devastating war that left entire neighborhoods and towns in ruins, the Islamic State group is fighting to hang on to its last enclave in eastern Syria, engaging in deadly battles with U.S.-backed forces. Cornered in the desert near the Iraqi...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 300 civilians, mostly women and children, have been evacuated from the battleground of Hajin town through humanitarian corridors on Saturday, Kurdish media outlets said. The influx of people out of Daesh pocket in eastern Deir Ezzor province has followed heavy...