(Al-Jazeera)- A letter from a young woman to her fallen husband, a pro-Assad fighter in Syria, was recently published in Tasnim News, one of Iran's most prominent news agencies affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). "This shrine [the Zaynab shrine] is sacred ... I am...

(The Guardian)- Key parties in Syria’s brutal civil war, now stretching towards the end of its sixth year, will meet in the Kazakh capital of Astana this week for a new round of peace talks. Organised by Russia and Turkey, and backed by Iran, these are the latest in many attempts to...

Iraqi forces used to facing deserted, explosives-rigged streets and booby-trapped buildings are discovering fewer bombs planted by jihadists in Mosul than in earlier battles against them. The Islamic State group has no qualms about killing civilians, but the presence of a large number of...

(Sky News)- Marine Le Pen, leader of the French far-right Front National party, has said the Brexit vote has set off a domino effect that "will bring down all of Europe". She said the British and Americans had pulled off "coups" in 2016 and predicted that 2017 would be the "year the people...