Iraqi army helicopters strafed and fired rockets at ISIS positions in Mosul's Old City on Sunday as troops on the ground closed in on the strategic and symbolic prize of the al-Nuri Mosque. Federal Police troops had advanced past the train station in western Mosul closer to the mosque. A...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces battled rebel groups at the fringes of Damascus on Sunday, after the insurgents launched an attack from the east of the heavily fortified capital, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the army and allied forces had...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 2400 Rebels and their families evacuated from Waer Neighborhood in Homs city have arrived to FSA-controlled town of al-Bab in the eastern countryside of Aleppo, local reporter said Sunday. Rebels began leaving their last bastion in the city of Homs on Saturday under a...

With warm words from Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ended his first trip to Asia since taking office with an agreement to work together with China on North Korea and putting aside trickier issues. China has been irritated at being repeatedly...