Buses carrying thousands of Syrian refugees and rebel fighters have begun leaving the Lebanese territory of Arsal for government-held areas of Syria, according to the Hezbollah-owned al-Manar TV station. The ...

Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi was appointed on Monday by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to lead the Expediency Council, a powerful body constitutionally charged with finding the middle ground between ...

Northern Syria Federation officially announced the establishment of three federal regions of Jezire, Firat and Efrin in the Kurdish controlled federation. According to Hawar News, the council of the federation ...

Saudi elite forces are in the process of razing the historic quarter of a largely Shia town in the country’s eastern province after months of clashes with gunmen in the ...

A commander of the Iraqi forces of Hashid Shaabi stated that the forces would not participate in the upcoming operation to liberate the Iraqi northern city of Tel Afar due ...

Iraqi Interior Minister Qasim al-Araji said on Sunday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has officially asked him to mediate between Tehran and Riyadh. “Mohammed bin Salman officially conveyed ...

Iraq's Kurds are sticking to a plan to hold an independence referendum on Sept. 25, despite a U.S. request to postpone it, a high-ranking Kurdish official told Reuters on Saturday. ...

More than 600,000 Syrians have returned to their homes in the seven months from January, mostly to the northwestern province of Aleppo which the government liberated at the end of ...

The Iranian Parliament voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to approve the outlines of a bill to counter the “U.S. terrorist and adventurist acts in the region”, boosting by more than 500 ...

These days there is a single item on the agenda of the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq: The Sept. 25 independence referendum. KRG President Masoud Barzani has started ...