UNITED NATIONS: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon painted a worsening picture of the war in Syria, citing widespread conflict, indiscriminate government bombing, opposition shelling, high civilian casualties and deteriorating humanitarian conditions. In...

Davos (Switzerland) (AFP) - Iraq's premier expressed confidence Friday that the country's struggling army is capable of retaking the city of Mosul from the Islamic State group. The chief problem, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told a gathering of political and economic leaders...

By Mariam Karouny BEIRUT, Jan 22 (Reuters) - With a confident smile, the leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement warned in a recent interview that allies of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would strike back if Israeli attacks inside Syria...

Around 200 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants have been killed in a major operation by Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces early on Wednesday, an official said. "A wide-ranging military operation started in the east and west of the Mosul Dam...