Kurdish rebels based in north Iraq Monday claimed to have killed seven Iranian soldiers in clashes last week near the Islamic republic's border with Iraqi Kurdistan.   "Iranian forces...attacked and swept the area near Sardasht," the PJAK said in a...

The U.N.-Arab League special envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, said Wednesday it was clear a chemical substance had been used in an August 21 attack in the war-torn country, killing hundreds of people. Speaking to reporters in Geneva about the suspected chemical attack, Brahimi said “it does...

High-profile media companies including the  New York Times , the  Huffington Post  and Twitter lost control of their websites Tuesday after hackers supporting the Syrian government breached an Australian-based Internet company that manages many major site addresses....

    Haquna (Our Right) organization declared arresting number of its activists during an argument with Militants of the Islamic state of Iraq and al-Sham.   The activists protested against the continuous abuses by al-Qaeda- linked militia ISIS,...