The United Nations is still waiting for Syrian government agreement for an aid convoy to enter the besieged town of Daraya, U.N. officials said on Tuesday. "The blockage of aid is a political issue," U.N. spokesman Ahmad Fawzi told a regular U.N. briefing in Geneva. "Daraya is 12 km (7.5...

More than 20 European and Asian-owned supertankers are shipping Iranian crude oil, data seen by Reuters shows, allowing Tehran to ramp up exports much faster than market analysts had expected following the lifting of Western sanctions in January. Iran had been struggling as recently as April...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) accused protesters of Slouk town in Raqqa northern countryside on Saturday of being Islamic State affiliates, activists reported. YPG militia said in a released statement that on June 3, several Slouk locals provoked by Isis...

An Iranian-backed Sh'ite Iraqi militia said on Saturday it planned to storm Falluja, Islamic State's stronghold near Baghdad, once civilians left the city, backtracking on earlier statements that it would leave this task to the Iraqi army. "We will not enter Falluja as long as there are...