President Bashar al-Assad has appeared on the Syrian currency for the first time, his portrait printed on a new 2,000-pound banknote that went into circulation on Sunday. Central bank governor Duraid Durgham said the 2,000-pound note was one of several new notes printed years ago but the...

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Mali on Sunday to boost Western backing for a regional anti-extremist force, with France urging greater support for the Sahel region amid mounting insecurity. The so-called "G5 Sahel" countries south of the Sahara - Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali,...

( Middle East Monitor )- Iraqi officials have declared that Daesh’s caliphate is finished. On June 29, after months of urban warfare and US air strikes, Iraqi forces say they are on the verge of expelling the militants from their last holdouts in Mosul. “Their fictitious state has...

The United Nations Friday approved a nearly $600 million cut to its peacekeeping budget following pressure from the United States to reduce funding to the world body. The General Assembly approved by consensus the annual budget expected to total $7.3 billion, down from the current $7.87...