The Russian-backed Syrian army has recaptured 16 villages lost to insurgents last week near the city of Hama, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Friday. Syrian government forces have been counter-attacking in the area that is of critical importance to President Bashar...

(The Guardian)- President Trump told a group of senators this week that the US military was “doing very well” in Iraq. “The results are very, very good,” Trump said. The families of the hundreds of innocents who have been killed in US airstrikes since Trump became president might...

On west Mosul's Baghdad street, thousands of displaced Iraqis flee the fighting with their meagre belongings but similar numbers walk in the other direction, heading straight back into the war-torn city. The street is currently the main corridor for civilians fleeing the battle between the...

(The Guardian)- The number of Syrians who have fled their country has topped 5 million after six years of war, the UN’s refugee agency has said. UNHCR announced the milestone a year after participating countries at a Geneva conference pledged to “resettle and facilitate pathways for...