Kurdish authorities said on Tuesday they suspected a homemade rocket fired by Islamic State at their Peshmerga forces in northern Iraq contained chemical substances, accusing the Islamist insurgents of an increasing use of chemical weapons, Reuters reported. The Kurdistan Region's...

 The United States remains Iran's "number one enemy" despite a recent nuclear deal with world powers, the chief of Tehran's top clerical body said Tuesday, Iranian media reported. The Assembly of Experts is among Iran's most influential institutions, comprising 86 elected clerics...

 Syrian labor community in Kuwait to have long residence visa due to the deteriorating situation in their war-torn country, a Kuwaiti daily said on Monday. Brigadier General Abdullah Al Hajeri, acting director of residence department in Kuwait told al-Anbaa newspaper that Syrians live...

Trainloads of migrants arrived in Austria and Germany from Hungary on Monday as European Union asylum rules collapsed under the strain of a wave of migration unprecedented in the EU. As thousands of men, women and children - many fleeing Syria's civil war - continued to arrive from the...