(Daily Star)- Iraq's exports from the Kirkuk oil field through an export pipeline to Turkey have dropped because of power outages, an official at state-run North Oil Co. said Saturday. Export are currently running at 100,000 barrels per day (bpd), compared with 133,000 bpd in October, the...

All hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo are out of service after days of heavy air strikes on the besieged area of the Syrian city, its health directorate said late on Friday but a war monitor said some were still working. "This destruction of infrastructure essential to life leaves the...

A senior military commander says Iraqi troops are facing stiff resistance from ISIS militants as they push deeper into eastern Mosul. Maj. Gen. Sami al-Aridi of the Iraqi special forces says his troops moved early Saturday morning into the Muharabeen and Ulama neighborhoods after fully...

A Saudi-led military coalition will start a 48-hour ceasefire in Yemen's war at noon (0900 GMT) on Saturday in the latest effort to end a conflict that has displaced millions and caused a worsening humanitarian disaster. The coalition has been fighting Houthi rebels and forces loyal to...

Syrian rebels fought fiercely with pro-regime forces trying to advance into opposition-held areas of eastern Aleppo and warplanes kept up their bombardment of the area Friday in a renewed bid by Damascus to retake the entire city. The U.N. humanitarian adviser said the besieged population of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three Fateh al-Sham fighters were killed on Friday when a U.S.-led air strike hit their car near the border crossing of Bab al-Hawa in Idlib province, activists said. Local activists said the The International alliance used a drone in targeting he powerful Fateh al-Shma,...

China has filed an appeal against a ruling by the World Trade Organization (WTO) in a dispute over methodologies used by the United States to calculate anti-dumping tariffs targeting Chinese imports, a WTO statement said. In the dispute panel ruling released last month, China won the bulk of...

The administration of President Barack Obama moved Friday to block new leases for oil drilling in the Arctic region, according to the Interior Department. The move is an attempt before he leaves office to strengthen Obama’s environmental legacy by preventing new leases for exploration and...

Iraqi forces have found another suspected mass grave containing the remains of ISIS victims in territory recaptured from the extremists near Mosul, AFP journalists reported Friday. An AFP team visited the isolated site that was recaptured recently by elite interior ministry forces down a...

A US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance on Friday fought fiercely to drive ISIS from a hilltop north of the extremists' de facto Syrian capital of Raqqa. The fighting took place as a senior official with the Syrian Democratic Forces told AFP that US-led coalition forces had not only provided...

(The Telegraph)- The Syrian Civil Defence, better known as the White Helmets, have released dramatic footage of a six-year-old child being pulled out of rubble in east Aleppo amid renewed Russian-Syrian bombardment. The main rescue group operating in rebel-held eastern Aleppo dug through the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime military campaign backed by allied sectarian militias, has entered its fourth days on the neighborhood of al-Waer in Homs, as well as northern towns of the city like Talbisa and Holeh have been targeted by more than 10 air strikes, resulted in many injuries...

 Intensive bombings pummeled rebel-held eastern neighborhoods of the city of Aleppo on Friday, residents and rescuers said, hitting an area housing several hospitals and sending the chief of a pediatrics clinic in a frantic search for a place to move his young patients. Earlier Friday,...

Syrian refugee was seriously hurt and others left without shelter as assailants wielding rocks and firebombs targeted a migrant camp on the Greek island of Chios, officials said Friday. The attacks were among several incidents at the Souda camp just days after lawmakers from the Greek...

The besieged population of eastern Aleppo faces a "very bleak moment" with no food or medical supplies, winter approaching, and an increasingly fierce attack by Syrian and allied forces, U.N. humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland said Friday. Although Russia and rebel groups both sounded positive...

 U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has tapped three senior leaders of his national security and law enforcement teams, choosing Senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Representative Mike Pompeo as CIA director and General Mike Flynn as national security adviser, a transition official...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Militants of the Kudish Democratic Union Party (PYD) have launched an arrest campaign against Kurdish politicians in Amoda area in the Northern countryside of Hasaka after their attempts to break in Yakiti Party’s offices.  The central committee of Yakiti party said...

President Barack Obama joined the leaders of major European countries in Germany Friday to discuss security and economic challenges facing the trans-Atlantic partners. The session with the leaders of Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Spain expands on lengthy talks he held a day earlier...

(The Daily Star )- NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Friday he was certain that Donald Trump as U.S. president will lead the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and he is hoping to speak to the president-elect soon. "I am absolutely confident that President Trump will maintain U.S...

The UN Security Council unanimously decided on Thursday to extend for another year the mandate of a panel tasked with investigating chemical attacks in Syria and identifying those responsible. Backed by Russia, the council adopted a US-drafted resolution to prolong the joint investigation by...