Gerges Rizk put the final touches on a newly renovated church in the southern Syrian city of Daraa, but hundreds of congregants who once packed its pews will be missing this year. Dressed in a black robe, the priest adjusted a large crucifix at the altar of the Sayyidet Al-Beshara church,...

Anger over Iran's stranglehold on Baghdad's political system has helped propel an unprecedented protest movement -- and now Iraqi activists are hitting the Islamic Republic where it hurts, with a goods boycott. Tehran has held enormous sway over its neighbour since dictator Saddam Hussein...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Daesh (ISIS) group has attacked the Iraqi Shiite militia Harakat al-Nujaba near an oil-rich area in the Syrian desert, such a move follows a series of snap attacks by the Islamic State on regime forces and allied militias in the central province of Homs. Badiya 24,...

From buying an Irish navy boat re-registered as a "pleasure yacht" to enlisting a Canadian firm to recruit Sudanese fighters, Libya's warring parties are running rings around a UN arms embargo. That's the upshot of a report published this week by UN experts, who accuse an array of firms and...