Beirut: Lebanon's and Egypt's national carriers will halt flights to the Iraqi Kurdish regional capital Arbil this week at the request of the...
Beirut: Lebanon's and Egypt's national carriers will halt flights to the Iraqi Kurdish regional capital Arbil this week at the request of the...
Baghdad: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi demanded Wednesday that this week's vote on independence for the autonomous Kurdish region be annulled. "The referendum...
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s Civil Aviation Authority on Wednesday requested foreign airlines suspend flights to the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) area by Friday. The move...
JERUSALEM: Palestine joined Interpol as a member state on Wednesday, a move opposed by Israel, in a vote at the international police organisation's...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi state TV employees pushed on Tuesday for the dismissal of Kurdish-origin civil servants who participated in Monday’s controversial independence referendum. Gathering...
Moscow: Russia's defence ministry on Wednesday said it had killed five field commanders and 32 fighters from a group formerly affiliated with Al-Qaeda...
Ramadi, Iraq: Islamic State group jihadists battled Iraqi forces near Ramadi west of Baghdad Wednesday after infiltrating government lines, a military source said....
PARIS: The Lebanese president says he wants some 1.5 million Syrian refugees living in his country to henceforth start returning to their homes,...
Damascus: The Syrian government is ready to discuss autonomy for the country's Kurds, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem has said, the first time...
MOSCOW: The Russian Defence Ministry on Tuesday denied allegations that its air strikes had killed civilians in Syria’s Idlib province, saying that in...
Raqqa: US-backed militias expect to push all Islamic State fighters out of their former Syrian headquarters of Raqqa in less than a month,...
Arbil, Iraq: Iraq's Kurds defied widespread opposition to vote Monday in a historic independence referendum, sparking fresh tensions with Baghdad, threats from Turkey...
Beirut: The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces militia on Monday accused Russia of killing one of its fighters and wounding others at a gas...
Abu Dhabi: An Egyptian believed to be the world's heaviest woman died Monday morning of heart and kidney failure at an Abu Dhabi...
Beirut: US-led coalition strikes near the Islamic State group's Syrian stronghold Raqa in March killed at least 84 civilians, including dozens of children,...
ANKARA: A Russian lieutenant-general died Sunday near Deir ez-Zour in Syria as a result of mortar shelling by IS militants, according to Russia’s...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Sunday that his country “rejects the formation of a racist state in Iraq,” on the...
NINEVEH, Iraq: Three Iraqi soldiers were killed by a landmine explosion in northern Iraq on Sunday, according to a local police officer. A...
