The Iraqi Ministry of Defense announced that it has retaken two regions in the north and west of Iraq on Friday. The areas which were controlled by ISIL only a few days ago are now liberated, with around 135 ISIL militants being killed during...
(Reuters) - Iraq is seeking to postpone a final $4.6 billion installment of reparations for its 1990-91 occupation of Kuwait, Finance Minister Hoshiyar Zebari told Reuters, as it faces a cash crisis caused by falling oil prices and war with Islamic State. Since Iraq was...
(Anadolu News Agency)- Turkey is No.1 in the world for the provision of humanitarian aid, according to the 2013 report by the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency released on Sunday. Turkey managed $4.3 billion in humanitarian aid...
In the summer of 2004, a young jihadist in shackles and chains was walked by his captors slowly into the Camp Bucca prison in southern Iraq. He was nervous as two American soldiers led him through three brightly-lit buildings and then a maze of wire corridors, into an open yard,...
As details from the summary of a 6,000-page U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee report on torture and detention methods used by the CIA surface, politicians, leaders and critics have reacted with outrage. The report summary disclosed not only that "waterboarding"...
By Fathi Ibrahim Bayoud; Translation by yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- I wish Syrians’ little dream to renew their passports was not that complicated and victim of opposition’s conflict of interest. However, the scary thing happened, and dream of...
(Anadolu News Agency)- A Senate committee on Thursday approved new authorizations for the fight against ISIL in Iraq and Syria. The Authorization for the Use of Military Force passed the Foreign Relations Committee by a 10-to-8 vote with no Republicans voting for...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sought to spur climate envoys to action Thursday as the annual UN summit entered its final phase with an accord far off. The world faced a “massive moral failure of historical consequences” if it failed to act decisively in reining in climate...
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and his Italian counterpart Matteo Renzi agreed to work together to find a solution for the conflict in Libya. "We will jointly work towards a comprehensive reconciliation process in Libya that will bring together all the...
The American benchmark for crude oil price has dipped below the $60 per barrel mark, its lowest point in five years, on Thursday. West Texas Intermediate dropped to $59.88 per barrel at 1930GMT, its lowest point since July 2009. ...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists have circulated online video showing how Syrian rebels and Islamist battalions stormed regime bases in the embattled town of Daraya west Damascus during this week, taking control on few points after violent...
(Anadolu News Agency)- ISIL launched a counter-attack on Thursday, resulting in it controlling two areas in the western Iraqi province of Anbar. The areas are close to Baghdadi town, located around 13 miles west of Hit city in Anbar governorate....
Two French fans of Paris Saint-Germain have been stabbed after the UEFA Champions League match against Barcelona at Catalan team's home stadium, Nou Camp in Spain on Wednesday night. The stabbed fans, who had been attacked by two suspects wearing...
Germany has announced it is considering sending around 100 soldiers to northern Iraq to train peshmerga forces who are fighting the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL. Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer told journalists at the Federal...
French Senate has adopted a resolution calling on the government to recognize the state of Palestine. The draft resolution submitted by the Greens parliamentary group was adopted by 154 votes in favor to 146 votes against on Thursday. Although the...
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The training of moderate Syrian forces to fight against ISIL terrorists will begin next March, a U.S. official said Thursday. Brett H. McGurk, a deputy envoy to the U.S.-led anti -ISIL coalition, testified before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee that...
Senior Palestinian official Ziad Abu Ein was laid to rest on Thursday at a military funeral in Ramallah, one day after his death during the dispersal by Israeli troops of an anti-settlement protest in the West Bank. Thousands of mourners took part in the funeral, which...
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - - Almost 50 people have been killed in the past 10 days in fighting between Libyan pro-government forces and Islamist groups in the second-largest city, Benghazi, medical personnel said on Wednesday. That brings...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Al Shabaab militants have beheaded two Somali policewomen, prompting a policeman to kill five women linked to the group who were being held for a possible swap of captives, an official said on Wednesday. The...
