Anti-government rallies have renewed across Iraq, the second phase of protests that turned deadly earlier this month and which could balloon after the endorsement of populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Iraq was rocked by demonstrations in early October, first denouncing corruption and...

Around 300 more Russian military police from the southern Russian region of Chechnya have arrived in Syria, the defence ministry said Friday, Interfax news agency reported. The military police will patrol specific regions and help with the withdrawal of Kurdish forces and their weapons...

Turkey is forcibly sending Syrian refugees to an area of Syria near the border where it aims to set up a "safe zone" even though the conflict there has not ended, Amnesty International said in a report published Friday. Turkey currently hosts some 3.6 million refugees who fled Syria's...

French media firms said Thursday that they would drag Google before the country's competition regulator over its refusal to pay for displaying their content in search results, setting up a legal fight over a new EU copyright law. The APIG press alliance, which groups dozens of national and...