At least 104 people have been killed in the Syrian city of Idlib nine days after it was liberated from the regime of President Bashar al-Assad by opposition fighters. More than 100 civilians were killed after regime jets carried out heavy airstrikes on Monday which also left...

(Middle East Eye)- Hours after the Iraqi prime minister announced the 'liberation' of Tikrit on Tuesday, US officials said Islamic State group still control parts of the city. "Parts of the city remain under (IS's) control and there is still work to be done," Major Kim Michelsen,...

Air raids by a Saudi-led coalition again hit Houthi militia targets across  Yemen on Monday night, striking the group's northern stronghold of Saadeh, the capital, Sanaa, and the central town of Yarim, residents and media said. "There were huge blazes in the mountains outside Sanaa. It...

Here is a new Iraqi paradox: whatever progress the Shi’ite Muslim-dominated Baghdad government makes against jihadi insurgents occupying large swathes of north-western Iraq, it is simultaneously undermining what is left of the Iraqi state, whose frailty and malfunctions created the...