France said its security forces were fully mobilized for a presidential election at the weekend after the killing of a policeman by an Islamist militant threw a dark shadow over the last day of an unpredictable campaign. With the first round of voting in the two-stage election due to...

Iraqi forces retook two more neighborhoods in west Mosul on Thursday, tightening the noose around extremists holed up in the Old City, commanders said. "The forces completed the liberation of Al-Thawra neighborhood," Sabah al-Noman, spokesman for the elite Counter-Terrorism Service, told...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 52 Iranian-backed Shi'ite fighters have been killed by Free Syrian Army in the last four weeks in Hama province, activists and local monitoring groups said. Syrian rebel who launched major attacks on regime forces and allied militias las March have killed and...

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the United States was looking at ways to pressure North Korea over its nuclear programme as North Korean state media warned the Americans of a "super-mighty preemptive strike" and said don't "mess with us". U.S. President Donald Trump has taken a hard...