SYDNEY: Senior U.S. officials said the Obama administration had begun directly providing weapons to Kurdish forces who have started to make gains against Islamic militants in Iraq. The U.S. previously had insisted on only selling arms to the Iraqi government. The...

  By Hamza Mustafa; Translation by Dani Murad Al-Qaeda group in Syria,   al-Nusra Front is   passing through its worst stages after a period can be described as "golden", started with the establishment of the Front in January 2012...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Aleppo’s military council has suspended all activities of its command room until further notice over allegation of lack of armament and  power monopolizing by the council leader, operation room commander said. Abu Ahmed...

(Reuters- Exclusive) - Islamic State militants have killed at least 500 members of Iraq's Yazidi ethnic minority during their offensive in the north, Iraq's human rights minister told Reuters on Sunday. Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said the Sunni militants had also buried alive some...