MOSCOW: Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Friday it was checking information that a Russian air strike near the Syrian city of Raqqa may...
MOSCOW: Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Friday it was checking information that a Russian air strike near the Syrian city of Raqqa may...
GENEVA: The United Nations urged Russia, Iran and Turkey on Thursday to open up areas of Syria to the delivery of humanitarian aid...
MOSCOW: Russia's medium-term plans in Syria include improving capability of the Syrian armed forces which would allow to relocate Russian troops in the...
GENEVA: At least 300 civilians have been killed, and 160,000 displaced amid the intensified airstrikes by the U.S.-led anti-IS coalition against Syria's northern...
BAGHDAD: Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday accused a U.S.-led coalition tasked with fighting the IS terrorist group with using white phosphorus in...
The Hague: The International Criminal Court chief's prosecutor on Wednesday called for the "immediate arrest and surrender" of Moamer Gaddafii's son Seif al-Islam,...
Mosul, Iraq: For Umm Mohammed and other residents of areas of war-battered west Mosul recaptured from Islamic State group jihadists, this year's Muslim...
FINSTADJORDET, Norway: U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura said on Wednesday he may reconvene peace talks between the Syrian government and opposition in Geneva...
Algeria: Two soldiers were killed and another one was injured as a military helicopter crashed overnight Tuesday in the Algerian province of Naama,...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi forces repelled a major counter-attack by Islamic State fighters at dawn on Wednesday in a district south of the Old City...
BEIRUT,: Lebanon expects to hold a parliamentary election on May 6 2018 and parliament will extend its current term until May 20 that...
Beirut: Islamic State group jihadists waged fierce battles Tuesday in their Syrian stronghold Raqa in a bid to repel US-backed fighters advancing towards...
Moscow: A new round of peace talks on Syria in the Kazakh capital of Astana is likely to be held in early July,...
Baghdad: A mass food poisoning at a camp for displaced Iraqi civilians outside Mosul has left at least two dead and hundreds requiring...
ERBIL, Iraq: Hundreds fell ill from food poisoning in a camp for displaced people east of the Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday...
Gaza City: Israel will reduce electricity supplies to the Gaza Strip after funding cuts by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, an Israeli minister said...
Istanbul: A strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck the Aegean coast of western Turkey and the Greek island of Lesbos on Monday, the US Geological...
GAZIANTEP, Turkey: Over 42,000 Syrians have returned to Jarabulus in northern Syria since the town was liberated from Islamic State, according to a...