( Middle East Monitor )- Iraqi officials have declared that Daesh’s caliphate is finished. On June 29, after months of urban warfare and US air strikes, Iraqi forces say they are on the verge of expelling the militants from their last holdouts in Mosul. “Their fictitious state has...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 20 Syrian refugees were killed and 400 more were arrested when the Lebanese army raided two refugee camps in the Arsal area at the border with Syria on Friday, local reporter said. The raids were part of a major security sweep by the army in an area that has...

Iraqi soldiers snap victorious "selfies" and pose with a captured Islamic State group flag at the Mosul mosque where militant chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi once spoke. "Where is Baghdadi?" they say, taunting the absent militant leader at the site of his triumphal 2014 appearance, the only time...

Israel's military says aircraft struck a Syrian military post that earlier fired a mortar into the Israeli-controlled side of the Golan Heights. It said the Syrian shell caused no injuries Friday, the latest in several such incidents of this week. The fire was spillover from battles in the...