(The Daily Star)- Iraqi forces said Sunday that they recaptured a series of villages surrounding jihadist-held Mosul as the operation to retake the city from the Islamic State group neared its third week. Tens of thousands of Iraqi troops and Kurdish peshmerga fighters have been advancing on...

Syrian rebels opened a new front in Aleppo as fighting spread on the third day of a major insurgent counter-attack to break the government's siege of the opposition-held part of the city, and each side accused the other using poison gas. The rebels, including both Free Syrian Army factions...

(Zaman al-Wasl) Zaman al-Wasl learnt that regime forces imposed a security cordon around Tartus central prison on Sunday afternoon following some of the political prisoners carrying out an insurrection. The political prisoners managed to gain control of the entire prison after breaking down room...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday that neither he or his department had been contacted by the FBI over its renewed investigation into his predecessor Hillary Clinton's emails. "No, I haven't been notified of anything, no, I haven't been requested of anything, no, I'm not aware...