Iraqi soldiers fighting just north of Mosul, within sight of city neighborhoods, said on Sunday they were ready to tighten the noose around Islamic State militants waging a brutal defense of their Iraqi stronghold. Four weeks into the campaign to crush Islamic State in Mosul, the city is...

The United Nations on Sunday appealed for $152 million to provide shelter, sanitation and food for a huge influx of refugees returning to Afghanistan from Pakistan. Pakistan has stepped up the pressure for its 1.5 million registered Afghan refugees to return home, citing security concerns....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Officials of the Democratic Union party (PYD) have promised villages of Tal Hamis in Hasaka Countryside to reconnect electricity after days of tension and threatening of boycotting the Kurdish Self Administration, in the same time, armed groups of the PYD raided houses...

Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters have launched a new phase in Operation Euphrates Shield to liberate Aleppo's northeastern district of Al-Bab. According to Anadolu Agency correspondents at the scene, the FSA arrived within two kilometers (1.4 miles) of Al-Bab late on Saturday....