The UN nuclear watchdog's governing body will meet on Monday as a row brews over Iran's refusal to allow access to two sites where historic nuclear activity may have occurred. The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) expressed "serious concern" in a report earlier this...

Turkish warplanes struck Kurdish militant targets in various regions of northern Iraq Sunday night in response to an increase in militant attacks on Turkish army bases, the Defence Ministry said. "The Claw-Eagle Operation has started. Our planes are bringing the caves down on the...

A drone strike in northwestern Syria Sunday killed two senior commanders with an al-Qaida-linked group, opposition activists said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said the strike was believed to have been carried out by the US-led coalition,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian security in southern Sweida city has dispersed an anti-government demonstration by around 100 people who had gathered to protest against deteriorating living conditions ahead of U.S. Caesar sanctions, activists said Monday. Security forces have arrested at least...