Beirut: The Islamic State (IS) continued to keep 350,000 civilians living in the northeastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zour under confinement, the Syrian Observatory for Rights Human...
Geneva: US Secretary of State John Kerry met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov here on Monday ahead of a new round of talks over Iran’s nuclear...
Beirut At least 1,465 members of the Islamic State (IS) Sunni radical group have been killed in five months of airstrikes by the US-led international coalition in...
Paris: France’s Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier has started military operations against Islamic State (IS) in Iraq, French media reported Monday. The first Rafale fighter jets took...
Ankara: Turkey is being used as the main route for smuggling weapons to terrorist groups operating in Iraq and Syria, the UN has said. Militant groups...
Washington: Military forces of the US and partner-nations continued to attack Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria and Iraq over the past three days, a US...
Baghdad: At least 1,232 people were killed and 2,434 were injured as a result of acts of terrorism and violence committed in Iraq during November, the...
Damascus: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said that international acknowledgment of the threats of terrorism is one of the factors determining the future of the region....
United Nations: The United Nations Security Council has put Libya’s Ansar al-Sharia group in the list of terrorist organisations and imposed sanctions against it for its...