BEIRUT: A U.S.-led coalition carried out at least 30 air strikes in Syria against ISIS militants in the northern province of Raqqa on Saturday, a monitoring...
SURUC, Turkey/BEIRUT: A convoy of Iraqi peshmerga fighters and weaponry made its way across southeastern Turkey Wednesday en route for the Syrian town of...
SURUC, Turkey/BEIRUT: ISIS insurgents pushed on with their assault on a Syrian border town on Thursday despite coalition air strikes meant to weaken them,...
BEIRUT: By striking ISIS militants in Syria, the United States would be weakening one of President Bashar Assad’s major enemies. But the new U.S. strategy may...
BAGHDAD: Two suicide bombers in Iraq killed at least 17 people in apparent revenge attacks after a major assault on a Sunni mosque heightened sectarian...
BAGHDAD: School is out, but northern Baghdad’s classrooms are packed – not with students, but with people who have traveled further than most to escape the...
BEIRUT: Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) militants stormed one of the Syrian government’s last outposts in the northern province of Raqqa in an...
BAGHDAD: The Iraqi soldier says he abandoned the army last week in despair. And while he still plans to fight he will not rejoin the unit he deserted in the...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who is fighting for his political life as a Sunni insurgency fractures the country, said Wednesday he hoped...
BEIRUT: Syria will hold a presidential election on June 3, state media reported on Monday, setting the date for a vote likely to give President Bashar...
BEIRUT: Lebanon expects to close its first licensing round for offshore gas exploration areas within about four months after overcoming a legislative hurdle...
BEIRUT: An al Qaeda splinter group in Syria pulled out of two provinces in the country's northwest on Friday and headed to its eastern strongholds after...
BEIRUT: Syrian government forces seized a village in the central Homs province on Saturday, state media and activists say, as part of a push for control of...
ISTANBUL/BEIRUT: Regional unit commanders of the main Western-backed Syrian rebel faction have rebuffed the dismissal this week of their chief by the group's...
BAGHDAD: A decade on from the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein and whipped up a tsunami of theft in Baghdad, Iraq’s National Museum is...
BEIRUT: Syrian rebels ousted an Al-Qaeda-linked faction from one of its northwestern bastions on Friday, activists said, a significant blow to the group after...
BAGHDAD: It’s Christmas in Baghdad, and once again Iraq’s Christians are celebrating behind blast walls and barbed wire. At least 34 people died...
BEIRUT: Syrian forces seized a suburb of Damascus on Thursday from rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad in a push that has shored up...
BEIRUT: Over half of the people surveyed in an international Reuters/Ipsos poll are opposed to foreign military action against Syrian President Bashar Assad,...
BEIRUT: Al Qaeda-linked fighters fought rival Syrian rebels near the border with Turkey on Wednesday, activists said, in an outbreak of violence driven by the...
ANKARA/BEIRUT: Al Qaeda-linked fighters battled a rival Syrian rebel group near the Turkish frontier for a second day on Thursday, after the militant...
PARIS/BEIRUT: The United States, France and Britain warned President Bashar al-Assad on Monday that there would be consequences if he fails to stick to a deal...
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt: At a cafe in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Mohamed was lamenting to a foreign journalist how Egypt's 2011 uprising had hurt...
CAIRO: In a Cairo mosque lie the charred and mutilated bodies of more than 200 Egyptians, apparently uncounted and unacknowledged by the state after security...
CAIRO: Supporters of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood stormed and torched a government building in Cairo on Thursday, while families tried to identify hundreds...