Iraqi forces clashed with Daesh (ISIS) militants holding out in Mosul's Old City on Wednesday, more than 36 hours after Baghdad declared victory over the extremists in what they had made the de facto Iraqi capital of their self-declared caliphate. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's victory...

The Lebanese army killed a suspected Islamic State-linked militant accused of carrying out several bomb attacks in Ras Baalbek town near the Syrian border, a security source and a military source said on Tuesday. The man, a Syrian national, was shot dead during an operation launched after...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Dozens of displaced people from al-Waer neighborhood left Zograh camp in Jarablus to return to al-Waer in Homs after they reached an agreement with the al-Assad regime on Monday.  Zaman al-Wasl’s reporter in the area said that more than 500 people, most of them...

( The Guardian )- One in 40. This is the dreadful death rate facing refugees attempting the perilous crossing from Libya to Italy in overloaded rubber dinghies. It has trebled since late 2015, when European search and rescue efforts in the central Mediterranean were much more concerted and...