Neither Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga nor will any Shia militia will enter the Mosul proper, as Iraqi forces prepare to retake the city, the second in command at the State Department told lawmakers Thursday. Hailing the highly anticipated offensive as the “culmination” of the counter-Daesh...

Germany will not grant any more state aid for ailing banks, a senior lawmaker in Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc said on Thursday, a day after the government denied it was working on a rescue plan for Deutsche Bank, its biggest lender. Deutsche (DBKGn.DE) is disputing a fine of...

Russian or Syrian warplanes knocked two hospitals out of service in the besieged rebel sector of Aleppo on Wednesday and ground forces intensified an assault in a battle which the United Nations said had made the city worse than a slaughterhouse. Two patients died in one of the hospitals and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian and Assad’s warplanes have continued hitting the eastern neighbourhoods of Aleppo, concentrating on vital buildings like hospitals and bakeries, intending to kill as much as possible. Hospital and bakery in the neighbourhood of al-Maadi were targeted according to...