Iraq launches offensive on last Islamic State stronghold in Mosul
Smoke rises after a rocket landed in the middle of the Iraqi rapid response forces’ position during a battle against Islamic State militants in the south of Mosul, Iraq February…
Smoke rises after a rocket landed in the middle of the Iraqi rapid response forces’ position during a battle against Islamic State militants in the south of Mosul, Iraq February…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met secretly a year ago with the leaders of Egypt and Jordan in a failed attempt by the Obama administration to…
Forensics and police officers work on the blast scene after Friday’s explosion outside a housing complex in the southeastern Turkish town of Viransehir Turkish authorities detained 26 people over a…
Workers attend a groundbreaking ceremony of Taksim mosque in Istanbul Construction began on Friday of a mosque in Istanbul’s central Taksim square, a controversial project championed by Turkey‘s President Tayyip…
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (left) and Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu talk before an opening session meeting of G-20 foreign ministers at the World Conference Centre US Secretary…
A car packed with explosives blew up on Thursday in southern Baghdad, killing at least 51 people and wounding 55, security and medical sources said, in the deadliest such attack…
Russian soldiers and civilians walk along a street in Aleppo The Syrian opposition wants face-to-face negotiations with the government about a political transition at peace talks that are due to…
A suicide bomber attacked a van carrying judges in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Wednesday, killing the driver and a passerby, police said, the second attack of the day…
The Iraqi Air Force carried out a strike on a house where Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was thought to be meeting other…
REUTERS photo Nearly 70 fighters from two formerly allied jihadist groups have been killed during infighting over the past 24 hours in northern Syria, a monitor said on Feb. 14.…