Three French women who joined Daesh (ISIS) before being captured by Iraqi forces could be facing the death penalty as they await trial in Baghdad, sources close to their cases told AFP. The women were detained after Iraqi fighters ousted the militants from Mosul last July, one source said,...

Turkey launched a new air and ground operation Saturday to oust Kurdish militia from a northern Syrian enclave, defying US warnings that the action risked destabilising the area. Turkey had in recent days sent dozens of military vehicles to the border area and readied pro-Ankara Syria...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanese authorities summoned a group of Syrian teachers to the General Security department in the town of Labwa near to border town of Arsal on Thursday, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The refugee teachers, who went spoke on the condition of anonymity, said...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The powerful Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) has recruited about 1000 young men from Hasaka and Deir Ez Zor provinces in its militia, most of whom are teachers in the Autonomous Administration  in northern Syria. According to Mohanad al-Yousef, an...