(Middle East Eye)- Hours after the Iraqi prime minister announced the 'liberation' of Tikrit on Tuesday, US officials said Islamic State group still control parts of the city. "Parts of the city remain under (IS's) control and there is still work to be done," Major Kim Michelsen,...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The deaths of three Red Cross and Red Crescent workers in unrelated attacks in Mali, Yemen and Syria within hours of each other this week were condemned as "profoundly shocking and unacceptable" by the organization's head on Tuesday. Elhadj As...

(Reuters) - More than 25,000 foreign fighters from some 100 countries are linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State, with Syria and Iraq comprising a "veritable international finishing school for extremists," United Nations experts reported to the U.N. Security Council. The experts, who...

(Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein;  Translation  by Yusra Ahmed)   Fighters of The Democratic Union Party (PYD) have expelled many families from their houses in Hasakah countryside, including a family of a commander in the F ree Syrian Army, who was killed by...