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....
An al-Qaeda-linked group said three militants killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces last week were its members, and that their presence there showed that the Islamist network had taken root in the occupied Palestinian territory. ...
