Two senior Iraqi army officers have been killed in clashes with ISIS south of the embattled extremist bastion of Mosul, the military command said Monday. The brigadier general and colonel were killed Sunday in the Sharqat area, 90 kilometers (55 miles) from Mosul where Iraqi forces are...

The Daesh terrorist group’s control over Libya’s coastal city of Sirte has "completely broken down", forces loyal to the Libyan unity government’s presidential council -- dubbed "Al-Bunyan al-Marsous" -- announced Monday. "The terrorists are on the run; dozens have surrendered," Al-Bunyan...

Linking aid for countries in the Middle East and Africa to how they manage migration can create dangerous precedents, the top United Nations' refugee official warned the European Union Monday. Overwhelmed by the arrival of more than a million refugees and migrants in 2015, the EU has...

Authorities in Russia's Siberian region of Tuva Monday were examining several pieces of the Progress cargo spaceship found after it crashed last week having failed to reach orbit. Two pieces, including a large spherical object, were found by herders over the weekend, while another was...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Violent clashes erupted between regime forces and Syrian resistance on Monday inal-Muyasar neighborhood which Syrian resistance attempts to recapture. Activists confirmed that Jaish Halep factions recaptured several neighborhoods on Monday from regime. Activist said the...

Syrian rebels Monday ruled out leaving east Aleppo, despite sweeping government advances and Moscow's announcement it would hold talks with Washington on a total rebel withdrawal from the city. Yasser al-Youssef of the Nureddine al-Zinki rebel group said any plan "for the exit of rebel...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Our sky is fortified. It is a very strong system and surprising for all flying objects. With these expressions which Russian media has used to talk about s-300 air missile defense system as a Russian supreme war model and a miracle that cannot be defeated. But what the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three children have been killed in Russian air strikes on the northern city of  Idlib on Monday, as the death toll is expected to rise, the volunteer Civil Defense group said. The Russian Vacuum missiles hit the northern neighborhood of Idlib while regime warplanes...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Monday slammed a proposed U.N. resolution demanding a temporary ceasefire in Aleppo as a "provocative step." "Taking into account all aspects and the current development of the situation, the draft resolution coming against the backdrop of the...

Amina Hamawy burst into tears and then fainted when she returned to eastern Aleppo to find that looters had ransacked her home. "Where am I? What happened?" she asked after her husband and daughter revived her. "We have lost everything." They were among a few hundred residents who fled...

Oil prices fell by one percent on Monday as a higher U.S. rig count unsettled markets amid nagging concern that output cuts, planned as part of concerted action between producer club OPEC and Russia, might not be as big as initially anticipated. International Brent crude futures LCOc1 were...

The United Nations appealed Monday for a record $22.2 billion (20.9 billion euros) to provide aid in 2017 to surging numbers of people hit by conflicts and disasters around the world. The work of humanitarians "is more necessary and courageous than ever," U.N. humanitarian aid chief Stephen...

 (Zaman AlWasl)- Another key district of eastern Aleppo has effectively fallen to advancing Syrian regime forces, a rebel official said Monday, as the army and allied militia pressed an assault against the opposition-held enclave. "Karm al-Jabal and al-Shaar are considered...

A massive fire swept through a four-star hotel in the southern port city of Karachi Monday, killing at least 11 people, officials said. More than 50 people suffered injuries in the early morning blaze, which started in the hotel kitchen, police officer Tauqeer Naeem said. The exact cause...

Kafa Jawish hadn't slept in days, daydreaming of seeing her home in east Aleppo for the first time in four years, but when she arrived she found little more than rubble. The 36-year-old was among hundreds of Syrians returning to east Aleppo in recent days after the army recaptured large...

While the fight to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from Islamic State is going to be difficult, it is "possible" it could be complete before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Monday. Some 100,000 Iraqi government troops, Kurdish security...

Suspected Russian airstrikes have killed at least 46 people in opposition-held parts of Syria, activists said, as the U.N. Security Council prepares to vote Monday on a resolution demanding a temporary cease-fire in Aleppo. Syria's government is waging a fierce offensive to recapture all of...

By Hassan Hassan ( The National )- The extent to which communities in Syria and Iraq that have fallen under ISIL’s influence have changed since the group took control might take a generation to fully comprehend. In much of the expanse that ISIL has controlled or still holds, social change was...

As the Syrian regime and its allies prepared to ramp up their attack on Aleppo in November, one of the rebel groups defending the opposition-held part of the city took up arms against another, seizing its stores of ammunition, fuel and food. The incident near an Aleppo frontline underlined the...

  The Syrian Network for Human Rights, in new report documenting the arbitrary arrests in Syria in November, said 394 people, including 11 children, and 19 women, were detained last month by the regime forces. The arrests made in Damascus focused on the age group 18-42 for the purpose...