Some 2,000 Daesh terrorist group militants remain in the Syrian city of Raqqa amid an offensive to recapture the group's stronghold, a senior US official said. Brett McGurk, special envoy ...

EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini, who is in Tehran to attend President Rouhani’s inaugural ceremony, met and talked with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. At the meeting which ...

Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Abul Gheit has sent a “private message” to the President of Iraq’s Kurdistan region, Masoud Barzani, asking him to reconsider his decision to hold an ...

In a speech marking the third anniversary of the IS invasion of Shingal and the murder and abduction of thousands of Yezidis, the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan ...

The US has sent 100 more truckloads of weapons to the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and People’s Protection Units (YPG) in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, Turkey ...

The former head of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) says he has established the new political party called the National Wisdom Movement with the aim of keeping pace ...

In a major shift from its previous foreign policy stances, Turkey has pleased China with vowing to crush any form of dissent against Beijing. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said ...

Hezbollah has formally announced an end to a security operation aimed at clearing the Lebanese town of Arsal on the border with Syria of al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front terrorists. In a ...

The deadly clashes between Saudi forces and Shia residents in the besieged town of Awamiyah are just the beginning of what could become a lot more instability within Saudi Arabia ...

Russia has dismissed as a “myth” a report by Reuters about a rise in the number of Russian military casualties in Syria this year. Reuters recently claimed that at least ...