Attacks near Baghdad and northern and western Iraq killed 15 people Monday, the latest deadly violence to rock the country amid fears it is slipping back into all-out sectarian war. Iraq's worst bloodshed since 2008, with more than 6,000 people killed already this year, has forced the...
The Islamic state in Iraq and the Levant posted online a decision to impose a blockade on areas under control of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in northern Syria. The ISIL’s statement ordered people of ‘Aleppo State’ to prevent entry of food staples,...
The death toll in Syria's conflict has risen to at least 125,835, more than a third of them civilians, but the real figure is probably much higher, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday. The pro-opposition monitoring group also appealed to U.N....
Syria’s Democratic Union Party, the country’s most powerful Kurdish group, hopes to create an autonomous Kurdish region in a federal Syria, its chief, Salih Muslim, told AFP in an interview. Speaking during a visit to France, he confirmed that...
