The United States and its allies carried out 18 airstrikes on ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria on Tuesday, the Joint Command Task Force said on Wednesday. Sixteen of the attacks were in Iraq, hitting tactical units, vehicles, fighting positions, weapons, buildings and an explosives cache near...

Aid to Yemen is being slowed by a Saudi-led coalition which has warned commercial vessels to stay away from areas hit by fighting, a U.S. Navy report said. The Arab coalition, fighting to end control of much of Yemen by the Iran-allied Houthi movement, denied the allegation and said it was keen...

Support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives has dropped to 38 percent, its lowest level since June 2014, as a dispute in her bloc over how to deal with a record inflow of refugees takes its toll, a poll showed on Wednesday. Merkel and Horst Seehofer, the leader of her...

China said on Wednesday it had no plans to send its military to Syria to fight with Russian forces after reports in overseas media that it was planning to do so. Chinese media has picked up Russian and Middle Eastern news reports that China would fight alongside Russia in Syria, and that...

On the campaign trail ahead of Egypt's parliamentary elections, the heavily bearded leader of the ultra-conservative Nour Party praises Islam's Prophet Mohammad for cleaning up politics, and promises to do the same. In reality, Younes Makhyoun has more pressing priorities --...

Two senior officers from Iran's Revolutionary Guards were killed fighting Islamic State militants in Syria, Iran's Tasnim news agency reported, ahead of a planned offensive by Syria's army backed by Tehran. Major General Farshad Hasounizadeh and Brigadier Hamid Mokhtarband, commanders in...

 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday ordered a special state probe into possible shortcomings over the Ankara bombings which killed 97, saying intelligence indicated the attack had its origins in Syria. Ergodan -- who has come under fire over alleged security lapses -- broke...

(Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) The Democratic Union Party (PYD) has since the beginning of the Syrian revolution denied coordination with the Syrian regime in fighting the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and other opposition factions, then the Islamic State (ISIS). It...

 Israel's security cabinet has authorised police to seal off Arab sectors of East Jerusalem, according to a statement from the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released early Wednesday. "The security cabinet decided several measures to combat terrorism, notably authorising...

ISIS’ spokesman confirmed Tuesday the killing of the militant organization’s second in command in a U.S. airstrike earlier this year. “America is rejoicing over the killing of Abu Mutaz al-Qurashi and considers this a great victory,” Abu Mohammad al-Adnani said in an audio recording posted...

 The Syrian army and allied Iranian and Hezbollah forces are preparing for a ground offensive against insurgents in the Aleppo area backed by Russian air strikes, two senior regional officials familiar with the plans said on Tuesday. The offensive would expand on a ground attack...

Syrian regime air force raided a marketplace in the embattled Eastern Ghouta district near Damascus, killing 14 people and wounding dozens, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said14 civilians were killed in Ein Tarma town east of Damascus when regime warplanes hit the...

Insurgents in Syria are deploying more men and weapons, including significant quantities of anti-tank missiles, to resist ground attacks by the Syrian army and its allies, backed by Russian air strikes, rebels and a monitoring group said on Tuesday. With help from Lebanon's...

EU border agency Frontex said on Tuesday that 710,000 migrants entered the European Union in the first nine months of this year, compared to only 282,000 in all of 2014. The Warsaw-based agency released the latest figures a day after the UN refugee agency said the EU's new relocation...

At least 27 people have been killed Tuesday in Aleppo and Damascus provinces due to regime and Russian air strikes in a fiercest aerial campaign on rebel-held areas for months, activists and a monitoring group said. 13 people have been killed in Darret Ezzah and Hayan towns near the northern...

Syrian rebels based in Damascus' Eastern Ghouta suburbs have fired two shells at the Russian embassy in the capital as scores of pro-regime supporters gathered outside the compound to thank Moscow for its intervention in Syria, AP reported An Associated Press reporter was outside the embassy on...

Iran's parliament has voted in favor of a nuclear deal struck with world powers. In a vote Tuesday carried live by state radio, 161 of 250 lawmakers present at the session voted in favor of the landmark accord. However, Iran's 12-member Guardian Council could refer the bill back to...

Nearly two weeks after the Russian intervention began in Syria, one could say it has not got off to a good start. Last week, the Syrian regime launched its first ground offensive against the rebels under Russian air support. The assault, in Hama’s northern countryside, failed spectacularly –...

A Palestinian stabbed and wounded a passerby north of Tel Aviv Tuesday before being detained by civilians in the area, police said, the latest in a wave of attacks that have targeted Israelis. The victim was "moderately" wounded in the stabbing near a bus station in Raanana, police said....

Two Palestinian youths of 13 and 15 stabbed and critically injured a 13-year-old Israeli boy riding his bike in northern Jerusalem on Monday, police said, continuing a wave of attacks in the city in which three alleged Palestinian assailants were shot dead. Four Israelis and 26...