The families cowered in basements, huddling in the dark as war raged overhead between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants fighting for control of the streets of Mosul. Above ground, soldiers from Iraq's Rapid Response division move from house to house through the same openings Islamic...

 By David Schenker (The Washington Institute)- In recent weeks, fighting has intensified in southern Syria as Russian warplanes and Bashar al-Assad's forces seek to retake the city of Deraa. Located on the main highway to Damascus, Deraa is only a few miles north of the Jordanian border,...

The Kuwaiti government could pay up to $60,000 to President Donald Trump's hotel in Washington for a party it held on Wednesday in an early test of Trump's promise to turn over profits from such events to the U.S. Treasury. The Kuwait Embassy hosted an event to mark their National Day....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four Islamic State's militants were killed on Monday when a rival group opened fire on an ISIS-held territory in Yarmouk refugees camp south of Damascus, source said. The powerful Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham alliance, led by the formerly known Nusra Front, hunted four ISIS...