Five Daesh/ISIS militants were killed in an Iraqi security operation north of Baghdad, according to a local security officer on Saturday. Police Captain Ahmed Khalaf told Anadolu Agency that a joint force from the Iraqi army and the Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization) Force shot dead...

Jordanian troops clashed with drug smugglers on the border with Syria on Friday, killing two people and seizing a shipment of hashish and amphetamines, the military said. The military said it thwarted two attempts to “infiltrate a group of people and smuggle quantities of drugs”...

The PKK terrorist group’s Syrian branch, the YPG, detained 61 teachers who refused to follow the curriculum imposed by the terrorists or rejected forceful recruitment in regions occupied by the group in northern Syria. The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), which documents human...

Authorities imposed a lockdown in Iraq on Thursday amid increased precautionary measures to stem the spread of coronavirus in the country. Iraq took drastic measures to stem the spread of a new wave of COVID-19, including a 8pm- 5am curfew to be in place Mondays to Thursdays. A full...