Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday called on Iraqi forces to allow aid to enter the Islamic State-held city of Falluja where it said tens of thousands of residents face acute shortages of food and medicine. The Iraqi army, police and Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias - backed by...

Displaced residents of the famed Syrian city of Palmyra, recently recaptured by the army, will begin returning to their homes at the weekend, a government official told AFP Thursday. Syria's armed forces recaptured Palmyra and the adjacent world-famous ruins from the ISIS on March 27, ending...

Islamic State fighters launched attacks on government-held areas near Damascus overnight on Tuesday in an apparent response to the group's loss of ground elsewhere in Syria. The jihadist group said in a statement it had attacked the Tishrin power station 50 km (30 miles)...

Breakaway forces in Azerbaijan's Nagorno-Karabakh region said a ceasefire agreed with Azeri forces on Tuesday largely held overnight. "Last night, the ceasefire was generally maintained along the contact line," the Nagorno-Karabakh military said in a statement on Wednesday.