Bombing of civilians by Syrian and Russian armed forces during a campaign against the last rebel bastion in northwest Syria may amount to crimes against humanity, US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report Thursday. The global rights group said it investigated dozens of "unlawful"...

The main focus of Middle East peace efforts should be to bring Israel and the Palestinians back to the negotiating table, the Saudi foreign minister said on Thursday in a comment suggesting that Israeli-Saudi normalization is unlikely any time soon. “I believe that the focus now needs to...

Iraq's finance minister said Thursday there is growing political will to undertake drastic reforms needed for the country to tackle a daunting liquidity crisis, which has pushed Iraq to the brink of collapse. "There is more will now than there was five months ago," Finance Minister Ali...

The Kurdish-led forces controlling northeast Syria Thursday freed more than 600 Syrian prisoners detained over links to Daesh (ISIS). The 631 detainees had been held on terrorism charges and were the first batch released in an amnesty deal announced recently following calls from Arab tribes...