Otto Warmbier, the US student released in a coma last week after nearly 18 months in detention in North Korea, died on Monday, prompting President Donald Trump to slam the "brutal regime" in Pyongyang. The 22-year-old was medically evacuated to the United States last Tuesday, suffering from...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Poweful Kurdish  PYD militia has launched a new arrest campaign in the villages of the al-Malikiya area in the countryside of Hasaka targeting young men among the internally displaced to conscript them to serve in the PYD militias. The internally displaced young men and...

The Iraqi army and Sunni tribal fighters have dislodged Islamic State from the al-Waleed border crossing into Syria, an Iraqi military statement said on Saturday. The capture of al-Waleed removes Islamic State fighters from the vicinity of a U.S. base located on the other side of the border,...

About 100,000 civilians remain trapped behind Daesh (ISIS) lines in Mosul with a U.S.-backed government offensive to recapture the Iraqi city entering its ninth month, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said Friday. Daesh snipers are shooting at families trying to flee on foot or by boat...