Syria Friday condemned a U.S.-led coalition strike on pro-government forces as a "brazen attack" and said it would "not be intimidated" after the surprise assault. U.S.-led warplanes carried out the Thursday strike in the east of the country against a convoy of pro-government forces headed...

President Emmanuel Macron undertakes his first trip as commander-in-chief Friday when he meets troops fighting Islamist militants in Mali where the security situation has worsened despite French intervention more than four years ago. The Sahel, a politically fragile area whose remote desert...

Iraqi Shiite paramilitaries captured an air base from ISIS militants on Thursday, gaining a strategic foothold in the western desert as they push towards the Syrian border. While regular Iraqi security forces engage in gruelling urban combat inside Mosul, the paramilitaries have been...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Kurdish forces have been banning the indigenous people from returning to their home in territories under their control unless being guaranteed by Kurdish or Arabic personalities, local activists said. The discriminative policy has sparked fears of the...