ISIS militants attacked an Iraqi army outpost and a police station near the city of Tikrit Friday, killing at least four soldiers and wounding 12 others, military and police sources said. The militants used a car bomb and two suicide attackers in their assault shortly after midnight on the...

 The Turkish military and Syrian rebels killed 32 ISIS militants in the latest clashes in northern Syria Thursday, Turkey's armed forces said in a statement Friday. In a round-up of its military operations over the last 24 hours in support of rebels in northern Syria, the army said...

The Syrian army and its allies pressed ahead Friday with a two-week-long offensive to seize a strategic valley where a key spring provides supplies to four million people in the capital, Damascus, residents and rebels said. Aerial bombing and shelling from the army as well as Hezbollah...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Syrian regime and its Iran-backed allies step up aerial bombing on the rebel-held Aleppo province despite a ceasefire deal brokered by Russia and Turkey 6 days ago, local reporter said. The pro-regime Iranian and Iraqi militias have positioned near Khanaser town in...

The United States is encouraging Syria peace talks being prepared later this month in the Kazakh capital Astana and hopes they could produce a step toward peace, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday. "We're encouraging a meeting in Astana. We hope that could produce a step...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 ISIS fighters were killed on Thursday when a fighter from Jabahat Fateh al-Sham opened fire on their checkpoint in the Yarmouk Camp south of the capital, source said. The attack had been followed by sporadic clashes between the ex-al-Qaeda affiliate group and ISIS...

Three inmates from the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay arrived in Saudi Arabia Thursday, after the White House rejected President-elect Donald Trump's demand for a freeze on transfers. An AFP reporter saw the three prisoners after they landed at a terminal normally reserved for royals...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces on Thursday thwarted ISIS major attack on two villages near Euphrates dam northeastern Syria after three days of fierce fighting amid reports of heavy losses from both sides, the U.S. backed group. The coalition of Kurdish and Arab fighters...

Gray is a dying town, its residents lament. Big businesses have moved away, taking jobs with them. Though it still lives up to its nickname "Gray la jolie," or "Gray the pretty," many stores now lie vacant, with fading "to rent" signs in their windows. But for one Syrian family, the...

Morocco has ordered the closure of schools it says are linked to a U.S.-based Islamic preacher that Turkey blames for a failed coup last year, the interior ministry said. "Investigations on the establishments of the Mohamed Al-Fatih group, linked to Turkish national Fethullah Gulen, showed...

The Obama administration imposed sanctions Thursday on a son of Sept. 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, saying the younger bin Laden poses a risk to U.S. national security. The State Department said Hamza bin Laden has been added to its Specially Designated Global Terrorist list after he was...

Syria is prepared for "open battle" against insurgents in the province where Damascus has been allowing them to gather under ceasefire deals, said the government official in charge of negotiations that have seen rebels yield swathes of territory. The past year has seen President Bashar...

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak said a much larger attack was apparently being planned, based on the weapons found at the scene of a car bombing in the western city of Izmir Thursday. "Based on the preparation, the weapons, bombs and ammunition seized, it is understood that a big...

Peace talks being prepared later this month in the Kazakh capital of Astana should aim to consolidate Syria's cease-fire and pave the way for wider U.N.-backed negotiations in February, the U.N. Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura said Thursday. Turkey and Russia brokered the Dec. 30 cessation...

In Syria’s Wadi Barada valley, the six days since a nationwide cease-fire was declared have only brought more bombs. Residents say the bombs have rained down daily, deepening the misery caused by a government-imposed siege that has emptied market shelves and left residents relying on wood...

French authorities have stepped up their investigation into accusations that members of the far right National Front tricked the European Parliament out of several hundred thousand euros paid to legislative aides. Party members are accused of using assistants for political activity even...

(BBC)- The Iraqi military says it has launched a new offensive aimed at re-capturing western towns near the Syrian border from the jihadist group Islamic State. The operation will involve army and federal police units, along with tribal fighters. Their main targets are the towns of...

At least nine people were killed in a car blast Thursday in the center of the Syrian town of Jableh in the coastal Mediterranean province of Latakia where two Russian bases are located, state television said. State media said scores of cars were on fire and shops were also damaged by...

Apple has removed the New York Times from its China app store, the tech giant said, after authorities told the company the app breached regulations. The US newspaper said both its English- and Chinese-language apps were pulled late last month, blocking one of the few remaining channels for...

Six Iraqi civilians were killed and another 17 injured on Thursday when a car bomb shook capital Baghdad, according to a local security source. "The explosive-laden vehicle blew up in the city’s eastern [predominantly Shia] Al-Obeidi area," Ahmed Khalaf, a Baghdad police officer, told...