( 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...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 20 Syrian refugees were killed and 400 more were arrested when the Lebanese army raided two refugee camps in the Arsal area at the border with Syria on Friday, local reporter said. The raids were part of a major security sweep by the army in an area that has...

U.S.-backed Iraqi forces pressed Islamic State fighters holding out in Mosul's Old City on Friday, while in Syria the militant group launched a counter-attack against an alliance of militias trying to oust it from its de facto capital of Raqqa. In Iraq, dozens of civilians poured out of...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump amid tensions over Washington's decision to arm Syrian Kurdish forces fighting the Daesh (ISIS), a Turkish official said Friday. Mahir Unal, a spokesman for Erdogan's ruling party, said the two leaders spoke by...