Russian President Vladimir Putin Talks on consolidating the Syrian ceasefire held in Kazakhstan this year helped jumpstart the United Nations-led peace negotiations in Geneva, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on…
Iraqi Special Forces soldiers stand around a fire at their field camp outside Mosul, Iraq, February 26, 2017. REUTERS photo U.S.-backed Iraqi forces pushed deeper into western Mosul on Sunday,…
AFP photo The top U.S. military commander for the Middle East made a secret trip to northern Syria on Feb. 24 to meet a U.S.-backed alliance fighting the Islamic State…
Iran launched naval drills at the mouth of the Gulf and the Indian Ocean on Sunday, a naval commander said, as tensions with the United States escalated after U.S President…
People demonstrating against Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad’s government hold a banner during the Geneva IV conference on Syria on the Place des Nations in front of the UN in Geneva…
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir made a rare visit to Baghdad on Fe. 25, meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, the premier’s media office said. It was the first…
Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim Turkey’s prime minister called on the public on Saturday to back constitutional change that would greatly strengthen President Tayyip Erdogan’s powers, portraying the reform as…
Homs has suffered repeated bombings Militants attacked two Syrian security offices in the western city of Homs on Saturday with guns and suicide bombers, killing at least 42 people including…
Four bombs went off on Saturday near a minor pipeline from an oilfield close to the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, security and oil industry sources said. The pipeline delivers…
An Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) car bomb attack killed at least 27 civilians and six Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters in northern Syria’s strategic al-Bab area…