TOKYO (Reuters) - Oil prices clung to this month’s high on Tuesday after Iraqi forces seized the oil-rich city of Kirkuk from largely autonomous Kurdish fighters while Asian shares held firm on optimism about upcoming earnings. Short-term U.S. bond yields and interest rates jumped after...

Daesh (ISIS) claimed responsibility Monday for two rockets fired from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula into southern Israel. The strikes hit the Eshkol region close to the border late Sunday without causing injury or significant damage, the army said. The militant group claimed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The second batch of ISIS videos shed the light on the Caribbean Group in the Islamic State that gained fame for its brutality. The footage was shot at the end of 2016 in the city of Raqqa. According to The Daily Mail ,  the Caribbean island of Trinidad has...

Germany has suspended the training of Kurdish Peshmerga forces in northern Iraq amid concerns about growing tensions in Kirkuk, officials confirmed Monday. “The military training activities have been temporarily suspended," a German Defense Ministry spokeswoman told Anadolu Agency,...

African countries need to redouble their efforts in the fight against terrorism that continues to grow in certain parts of the continent, the Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union said Monday. Ambassador Catherin Mwangi, representative of the PSC, told lawmakers meeting...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian police are mobilizing forces to storm the central prison of Homs as more than 500 prisoners continue their revolt for the second week against jail sentences issued for 50 detainees by the Terrorism Court, according to footage leaked by prisoners on Monday. For...

Lebanon can no longer handle vast numbers of Syrian refugees, its president said on Monday, urging world powers to help them return to the calmer parts of their war-torn homeland. More than six years into the Syrian war, 1.5 million refugees who fled the violence now account for a...

10 Kurdish fighters killed in clashes with Iraqi forces near Kirkuk: official

Two protesters and a policeman were killed Monday in the eastern city of Marib as a clash broke out at a rally to demand jobs for Yemeni tribes, a security source said. Dozens of residents of Marib had gathered outside the local government offices to demand better jobs for and...

A Russian court on Monday fined the popular Telegram messenger app for failing to provide the country's security services with encryption keys to read users' messaging data. A Moscow court imposed an 800,000-ruble fine (about $14,000/12,000 euros) over Telegram's failure to "provide law...

The European Union mposed fresh sanctions on North Korea on Monday as part of international efforts to punish the pariah regime for its nuclear and ballistic weapons programs. Foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg signed off a new package of measures including a ban on investments in...

(Reuters) - Iraqi government forces captured the major Kurdish-held oil city of Kirkuk on Monday, responding to a Kurdish referendum on independence with a bold lightning strike that transforms the balance of power in the country. A convoy of armored vehicles from Iraq’s elite...

Turkey is ready to cooperate fully with the central Iraqi government to end the presence of the outlawed Kurdish militant group PKK in Iraq, the foreign ministry said Monday. In a statement, the ministry also said Ankara would stand by Baghdad to provide peace and stability in the...

 Israel's military carried out an air strike on an anti-aircraft battery in Syria on Monday after it fired toward its planes, while vowing it sought no further escalation in the war-torn country. Israeli planes were on what the military described as a routine reconnaissance mission...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Head of the opposition's Interim Government said the ongoing infighting between Al-Shamiya Front and Sultan Murad alliance near the Turkish border to be solved soon due to a Turkish mediation and fevered efforts by the Syrian Islamic Council. Jawad Abu Hatab told Zaman...

Two Turkish soldiers were killed on Monday in the southeastern province of Hakkari after an improvised explosive device detonated, Turkish broadcaster CNN Turk said. The bomb was set off as a Turkish army truck drove past it near the Iraqi border.

 A U.S.-backed Kurdish-led force battling the Islamic State group in Syria will be in control of Raqqa "within a few days" after attacking the last militant-held pocket of the city, a spokesman for the force said Monday. Mustafa Bali of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, or...

Daesh (ISIS) once drew recruits from near and far with promises of paradise but now bodies of militants lie in mass graves or at the mercy of wild dogs as its “caliphate” collapses. Flies buzz around human remains poking through the dusty earth in the Iraqi town of Dhuluiyah, 90 kilometers...

An overcrowded boat carrying Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar capsized Monday in the Bay of Bengal near a Bangladeshi fishing village, killing 12 people, including six children, police said. Survivors of the capsizing told local officials that up to 65 people were on board and almost...

Malaysia has rolled out the red carpet for Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, who is on his first trip abroad since a diplomatic crisis erupted in June between his nation and four Arab countries. Sheikh Tamim, who arrived in Kuala Lumpur late Sunday, was given a 21-gun salute...