Sixteen Turkish workers were kidnapped by masked men in northeastern Baghdad on Wednesday, Iraq's Interior Ministry said. The workers were taken in the predominately Shi'ite district of Habibiya around 5 a.m. (0200 GMT), ministry spokesman Brigadier General Saad Maan told Reuters....

Israel complained to the United Nations on Tuesday about a Palestinian initiative to fly their flag alongside those of full member states at the world body's headquarters, calling it "another cynical misuse of the U.N. by the Palestinian Authority." Currently, only member...

Supporters of the international nuclear agreement with Iran moved within one vote of mustering enough support to protect the deal in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday when two more Democratic senators said they would support the pact. Senators Bob Casey and Chris Coons, known as Iran...

Seven supporters of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi were killed on Tuesday by friendly fire from a Saudi-led air strike in north Yemen, tribal sources said, as pro-Hadi forces converged on Marib in preparation to attack Houthi fighters in the region. In the southern port city...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Teachers in liberated areas in southern province of Daraa face the risk of being arrest each month they receive their Salaries, as they have to visit the the regime’s intelligence before getting paid from the directory of education.  Teachers working in...

A group of Western-backed Syrian insurgents said on Tuesday they had killed three foreign fighters -- two Saudis and a Tunisian -- with the Islamic State group in an undercover raid into an area under the control of the ultra-radical militants. An alliance of rebel groups known...

Pope Francis will give all priests discretion during the Roman Catholic Church's upcoming Holy Year to formally forgive women who have had abortions, in the Argentine pontiff's latest move towards a more open and inclusive church. In Church teaching, abortion is such a grave sin...

 Kurdish authorities said on Tuesday they suspected a homemade rocket fired by Islamic State at their Peshmerga forces in northern Iraq contained chemical substances, accusing the Islamist insurgents of an increasing use of chemical weapons, Reuters reported. The Kurdistan Region's...

The United States and its allies conducted 19 air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria on Monday, the U.S. military said in a statement on Tuesday. In Syria, six attacks hit tactical units, fighting positions, a training camp and other targets, it said. In...

Four percent of Iceland's population has joined a Facebook page seeking to have the country take in more people escaping the Syrian conflict, prompting the government to consider it. Around 12,000 people from a population of little over 300,000 joined the Facebook page. The...

A market in fake Syrian passports has sprung up, particularly in Turkey, to help migrants and refugees enter the EU, the head of Europe's border agency Frontex said on Tuesday. "There are people who are in Turkey now who buy fake Syrian passports because they know Syrians get the...

 The United States remains Iran's "number one enemy" despite a recent nuclear deal with world powers, the chief of Tehran's top clerical body said Tuesday, Iranian media reported. The Assembly of Experts is among Iran's most influential institutions, comprising 86 elected clerics...

 Syrian labor community in Kuwait to have long residence visa due to the deteriorating situation in their war-torn country, a Kuwaiti daily said on Monday. Brigadier General Abdullah Al Hajeri, acting director of residence department in Kuwait told al-Anbaa newspaper that Syrians live...

Trainloads of migrants arrived in Austria and Germany from Hungary on Monday as European Union asylum rules collapsed under the strain of a wave of migration unprecedented in the EU. As thousands of men, women and children - many fleeing Syria's civil war - continued to arrive from the...

(Israeli Ynetnews)- Russian fighter pilots are expected to begin arriving in Syria in the coming days, and will fly their Russian air force fighter jets and attack helicopters against ISIS and rebel-aligned targets within the failing state. According to Western diplomats, a Russian...

  Aleppo's Sharia Court, the higher judiciary body in rebel-held areas in the northern city, said on Monday all commercial and financial transactions will be in Turkish Lira instead of Syrian Pound by September 5, a move may undermine the value of Syrian (Lira) and to record a new setback...

(Reuters)- Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Monday the U.S.-led coalition's campaign against Islamic State was not doing as well as had been hoped in Syria and parts of Iraq. Harper also said Canada, one of the nations helping Iraq to fight the group also known as...

(Reuters)- A car bomb went off in Libya's capital Tripoli on Monday in front of the headquarters of Mellitah, an oil and gas joint venture between Italy's ENI and Libyan state oil firm NOC, witnesses said. "The explosion damaged the buildings around the ENI complex and burned three...

Around 20,000 people took to the streets of Vienna on Monday to demonstrate against ill-treatment of migrants, police said, after the bodies of 71 refugees were found in an abandoned truck last week. Holding up large banners reading "Refugees welcome" and "I don't want Europe to be a...

The hardline Islamic State group has destroyed part of an ancient temple in Syria's Palmyra city, a group monitoring the conflict said on Sunday. The militants targeted the Temple of Bel, a Roman-era structure in the central desert city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. It...