Iraqi government forces advancing on the Islamic State-held city of Mosul retook a village from IS on Tuesday and linked up along the Tigris river with army units pushing from a separate direction, Defence Minister Khalid al-Obeidi said. The territorial gain, which followed the recapture of a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The series of announcements of withdrawals and integrations from those overseeing the Thwar al-Sham Battalions, the faction whose formation was announced in April 2015 under the command of Captain Naji al-Mustafi with a coalition of several brigades operating in the western...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Doctors working in Aleppo have warned of a medical crisis in the war-ravaged city if the blockade by Bashar al-Assad regime continues as army forces press to cut Castello Road, main route to rebel-held Aleppo. Abdul Salam Daif , member of Free Doctors Association in Aleppo...

At least nine people were killed and 30 others injured in a car bombing in Iraqi capital Baghdad on Tuesday, according to a security and medical source. A car-bomb exploded at a marketplace in al-Rashidiya, a Shia-majority district in northern Baghdad, Interior Ministry official Nazim...