ERBIL: It has taken two years of training a demoralised army, backed up by the air cover and special forces of the world’s...
ERBIL: It has taken two years of training a demoralised army, backed up by the air cover and special forces of the world’s...
Nawaran, Iraq: At a field hospital out in the open, a few kilometres (miles) from newly carved front lines in northern Iraq, Kurdish...
DAMASCUS: Syrians in the opposition-held city of Douma are being forced to bury their dead in multi-layered graveyards as years of conflict make...
CAIRO: Egyptian authorities have suspended a TV anchor for describing ousted president Mohamed Morsi as “Mr President” during a news bulletin. Mona Shukri...
JERUSALEM: Israeli police have arrested 19 Palestinians during overnight raids in the occupied West Bank as the military closed off the occupied Palestinian...
MOSUL, Iraq: Kurdish Peshmerga forces have captured another three villages in Mosul as part of an ongoing offensive to oust Islamic State terrorists...
NINEVEH, Iraq: A senior aide to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed in an airstrike in the northern city of...
BAGHDAD: Iraq's parliament voted on Saturday to ban alcoholic beverages, lawmakers said, a move that worried Iraqis who see the growing influence of...
Arbil, Iraq: Iraqi forces battled Sunday through booby-traps, sniper fire and suicide car bombs to tighten the noose around Mosul, while also hunting...
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey: A police officer was killed and 10 people were wounded when a car bomb exploded near a passing police vehicle in...
Arbil, Iraq: US Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter arrived in Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan on Sunday to review the ongoing military offensive...
Hasakeh, Syria: On a dusty road in northeast Syria, a woman and her four children stand beside a freshly erected green sign for...
BEIRUT: The battle for control of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo intensified on Sunday with air strikes, ground offensives and shelling, the...
Ankara: Turkey has arrested more than 35,000 people over alleged links to the group run by the US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen, who is...
ERBIL, Iraq: Iraqi forces have advanced to 5 km (3 miles) from Mosul in an offensive against Islamic State's last major Iraq stronghold...
SANAA: Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition attacked targets in Sanaa at dawn on Sunday, hours after a three-day truce in Yemen's war expired,...
Baghdad: Iraq's parliament on Saturday voted to ban the sale, import and production of alcohol, in a surprise move likely to anger some...
Kirkuk, Iraq: Security forces battled for a second day Saturday with Islamic State group gunmen who infiltrated Kirkuk in a brazen raid that...
