Iraqi soldiers fighting just north of Mosul, within sight of city neighborhoods, said on Sunday they were ready to tighten the noose around Islamic State militants waging a brutal defense of their Iraqi stronghold. Four weeks into the campaign to crush Islamic State in Mosul, the city is...

The United Nations on Sunday appealed for $152 million to provide shelter, sanitation and food for a huge influx of refugees returning to Afghanistan from Pakistan. Pakistan has stepped up the pressure for its 1.5 million registered Afghan refugees to return home, citing security concerns....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 10 regime army soldiers were killed and a helicopter was destroyed on Sunday when the resistance factions hit Hama military airport with Grad missiles, according to rebel statement posted online. Jaish al-Nasr, one of the formations operating in Hama’s northern...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Officials of the Democratic Union party (PYD) have promised villages of Tal Hamis in Hasaka Countryside to reconnect electricity after days of tension and threatening of boycotting the Kurdish Self Administration, in the same time, armed groups of the PYD raided houses...