Prominent Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has made recommendations to President Fuad Masum and Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jabouri for reforming the Hashd al-Shaabi, according to statements issued Monday by the offices of both officials. The Hashd al-Shaabi is an umbrella group of Shia...

Every morning, Syrian trucks roll up to a car park near a Turkish border crossing, ready to take a consignment of UN aid back inside the war-torn country. But so far the cargo cannot reach the area where it is needed most -- the besieged rebel-held areas of eastern Aleppo where tens of...

The Syrian army and its allies announced the capture of a swathe of eastern Aleppo from rebels on Monday in an accelerating attack that threatens to crush the opposition in its most important urban stronghold. Two rebel officials said the insurgents, facing fierce bombardment and ground...

Syrian regime's Foreign Ministry on Monday denounced comments by Qatar that it will continue to back rebels against Bashar Assad as merely an attempt "to raise the morale of the terrorist groups" in the face of army advances. Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani...