Two rebel fighters were killed and three wounded on Sunday in regime air strike on Daraya, a poor Sunni community on the south-west outskirts of the capital, activists said. Rebels who announced 'Lahib Daraya' battle have made gains in the northern neighborhood of the town. In retaliation...

Iraq’s Council of Ministers on Sunday approved a package of reforms proposed by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ostensibly aimed at improving public services and rooting out widespread corruption. The move comes following two weeks of countrywide demonstrations to protest...

Turkish security sources are claiming to have killed a total of 390 militants from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in a series of recent air strikes against rebel targets in northern Iraq. An anonymous security force source also told Anadolu Agency that 400 PKK insurgents were injured...

Syrian regime air force had dropped 2041 barrel bombs on rebel-held areas across Syria last July, leaving 368 people dead, including 83 children and 63 women, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said in a new report. The Syrian military has been dropping barrel bombs -- crude weapons stuffed...