An elite unit of the Iraqi army paused its week-long advance on Mosul as it approached the city's eastern edge on Tuesday, waiting for other U.S.-backed forces to close in on Islamic State's last major urban stronghold in Iraq. Seeking to relieve pressure on their forces controlling the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- New statistics by local relief organizations showed that almost 4000 people with disabilities,including 500 children and 700 amputation, are living in the besieged northern countryside of Homs city. Abo Mohsen, a father of a disabled young man, said that he had become...

France will begin dismantling the "Jungle" migrant camp in Calais on Tuesday as several hundred more inhabitants queued for temporary housing in centers across France. More than 2,300 camp dwellers - more than a third of the total - left the filthy shanty-town outside the northern port by...

(theguardian)- Few Israeli citizens have gone to fight with Islamic State, perhaps a total of 50 in four years. Far fewer still have made it back to Israel to tell their tale. Among that handful is Sabareen Zbeidt, aged 30, and her husband, Wissam, aged 42, who flew back into Tel Aviv’s...