Iraqi security forces fired tear gas and live rounds into the air to disperse protesters in central Baghdad on Wednesday as the biggest wave of anti-government demonstrations in decades spread out across the capital. The shootings took place on or near three of Baghdad’s main bridges -...

Israel is assisting Syrian Kurds battered by a month-old Turkish incursion, seeing them as a counterweight to Iranian influence and advocating for them in talks with the United States, the deputy Israeli foreign minister said Wednesday. Ankara launched its assault targeting the Kurdish YPG...

Britain's five-week election campaign officially began Wednesday, when Parliament was dissolved ahead of the December 12 vote. However, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s campaign launch was marred by the resignation of one of his ministers, a gaffe about the victims of a deadly tower blaze and a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has extended its control on the town of Kafr Takharim in northern Idlib province on Wednesday, following a 'surrender’ deal with rival jihadist group, accoridng to Zaman al-Wasl sources. Fighters of the former al-Qaeda group...