(BBC)- Islamic State (IS) militants have raided government buildings in and around the Iraqi city of Kirkuk. Iraqi media reported that suicide bombers had attacked police stations and a power station, but that security forces had repelled the assaults. A news agency affiliated to IS...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Iraqi refugees’ influx to al-Hol camp in northeastern Hasaka province has continued as a result of the ongoing Mosul battles between the U.S.-backed Iraqi army and Islamic State. The huge influx of refugees fleeing the Iraqi cities of Salah-Eddin and Nineveh has forced...

Reporting by Ammar Bakkour (Zaman Al Wasl)- people in Eastern Aleppo refused to leave to regime-controlled neighbourhoods via passages connecting the sides of the city determined by the regime and Russia in a single-sided truce announced by regime starts Thursday, October 20, for three days....

(The Daily Star)- A Saudi Arabia-led military campaign in Yemen violated international humanitarian law with a so-called "double tap" air strike on a funeral gathering in the rebel-held capital Sanaa, United Nations sanctions monitors told the Security Council. The U.N. monitors said there...