BAGHDAD: Thousands of Iraqi civilians have fled western Mosul over the past 24 hours amid an ongoing army offensive aimed at driving Daesh...
BAGHDAD: Thousands of Iraqi civilians have fled western Mosul over the past 24 hours amid an ongoing army offensive aimed at driving Daesh...
ANKARA: Police seized over 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of different types of drugs and around 250,000 packs of contraband cigarettes during three separate...
Taji Base, Iraq: Iraqi soldiers manoeuvre sections of floating bridge on a muddy, man-made lake as American trainers instruct them in skills that...
Near Mosul, Iraq: Iraqi forces retook the provincial government headquarters and a second bridgehead on the River Tigris in west Mosul on Tuesday,...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi security forces on Tuesday captured the central bank's main branch in Mosul, which Islamic State had looted when it overran the...
Jerusalem: A top Arab Israeli politician on Monday defended naming a street in northern Israel after the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, after...
BERLIN: In 2008, the 60th anniversary of the state of Israel, Angela Merkel delivered a speech in the Knesset in which she described...
BRUSSELS: European Union foreign ministers on Monday urged restraint towards Turkey as some said they opposed campaigning by foreign politicians on their soil,...
Beirut: The Islamic State group has imposed an "Afghan-style" dress code on men in its Syrian stronghold Raqqa to help its fighters blend...
Mosul, Iraq: Abu Mariam's spacious villa sits in an upscale Mosul district, but when Iraq's second city became a war zone, the family...
Mosul, Iraq: Iraqi forces advanced in west Mosul and fighters in Syria seized a key supply route to Raqa on Monday as twin...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: Egyptian authorities on Monday “exceptionally” opened the Rafah border crossing with the blockaded Gaza Strip for three days. “The terminal...
JERUSALEM: Israeli forces detained two Palestinian lawmakers belonging to Hamas group during overnight raids in the occupied West Bank, according to Hamas’s parliamentary...
JERUSALEM: A Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli forces during a raid in the occupied West Bank overnight Sunday. The Israeli army...
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey: An operation was launched Sunday against PKK terrorists in 18 villages of Diyarbakir province's Lice district of southeastern Turkey, security sources...
IZMIR, Turkey: At least 130 migrants were apprehended off Cesme in western Turkey's Izmir province as they attempted to reach the nearby Greek...
ADEN, Yemen: At least six people were killed in a suspected al-Qaeda attack in southern Yemen on Sunday, according to a local security...
NINEVEH, Iraq: At least 16 people were killed Sunday in deadly clashes between Iraqi forces and IS militants in western Mosul, according to...