(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces took new ground from the Islamic State in the western countryside of Raqqa city, the U.S.-backed militia said in statement Wednesday. The SDF fighters captured Haddaj village after two days of clashes with ISIS. The ongoing advance...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a symbolic visit to Pearl Harbor with President Barack Obama on Tuesday, commemorating the victims of Japan's World War Two attack and promising that his country would never wage war again. The visit, just weeks before Republican President-elect Donald...

(Al-Jazeera)- After the Nigerian army claimed victory over Boko Haram in the armed group's forest stronghold, a commander at the forefront of the battle says the search is still on for the missing Chibok girls. The army captured the Sambisa Forest in the country's east over the weekend....

(The Daily Star)- A number of Syrians refugees from Aleppo who live in Lebanon say they will not return home for the time being and the security situation still dictates their timetable, even after the regime retook the country’s second city. For the families that spoke to The Daily Star...