Congolese President Joseph Kabila told the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations on Saturday that he would ensure those responsible for killing two U.N. investigators earlier this year would be punished. Michael Sharp, an American who was coordinator of an independent...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime and rebels based in southern suburbs of Damascus have reached an evacuation deal on Friday, such an agreement makes the capital mostly under regime control. About 600 rebel fighters from Mujahedi al-Sham and Ajnad al-Sham operating in al-Qadam neighborhood...

Hundreds of civilians left a besieged Islamic State enclave in central Syria after the Syrian government and Islamic State reached an evacuation deal, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday. The Syrian army could not be reached for comment on the report. An insurgent...

 In late May, an Iraqi cleric called Akram Kaabi visited militia fighters in a desolate Iraqi town near the Syrian border. Kaabi, who heads a Shi’ite Muslim militia named Harakat Hezbollah al Nujaba, was decked out in a camouflage uniform and led the fighters in prayer on mats laid on...