Violence flares in Turkey’s southeast after Kurdish mayors’ arrest
ANKARA — Five members of Turkey's security forces and five Kurdish militants were killed on Thursday in clashes in the southeast where unrest has flared...Villagers forced to walk to Mosul as human shields for ISIS
ISIS fighters forced women, children and the elderly to walk alongside them for days as human shields to cover their retreat to Mosul, separating out older boys and...Syria government says Aleppo ceasefire started, promises ‘safe exit’
DAMASCUS — The Syrian military said on Thursday a unilateral ceasefire backed by Russia had come into force to allow people to leave besieged eastern......
Iraqi PM: Mosul offensive going faster than planned
The offensive to seize back Mosul from ISIS is going faster than planned, Iraq's prime minister said on Thursday, as Iraqi and Kurdish forces launched a new...Turkey bombs Syrian Kurdish militia close to U.S.
Turkish air strikes pounded a group of Kurdish fighters allied to a U.S.-backed militia in northern Syria overnight, highlighting the conflicting agendas of NATO......
Yemen missile launch, Saudi-led air strike strain truce
SANAA — A 72-hour truce in Yemen came under pressure on Thursday when missiles fired from Yemen injured civilians in southern Saudi Arabia, according to an...Hariri backs Aoun for president in Lebanon
BEIRUT — Lebanon's former prime minister Saad al-Hariri said on Thursday he would back Hezbollah ally Michel Aoun to become president, a step that may help......
Libyan forces push into last ISIS area in Sirte
TRIPOLI — Libyan pro-government forces are advancing into the last area controlled by ISIS in the coastal city of Sirte, surrounding the militants after a five-month...Saudi lobbyist calls for partnership with Israel
WASHINGTON — A U.S.-based Saudi lobbyist called for closer economic ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia in an op-ed on The Hill, in possibly yet another sign of......
Germany Syrian bomb suspect kills himself in jail
BERLIN — Police and judicial officials in the German state of Saxony faced a blaze of criticism on Thursday after a Syrian man suspected of plotting to...U.S. military strikes Yemen after missile attacks on Navy ship
The U.S. military launched cruise missile strikes on Thursday to knock out three coastal radar sites in areas of Yemen controlled by Houthi forces,......
Syrian forces push for Aleppo ahead of Swiss talks
DAMASCUS — Syria's military backed by Russian warplanes have killed more than 150 people in eastern Aleppo this week say rescue workers, part of a renewed...Turkey warns assault on Mosul would trigger refugee wave
ANKARA — Any mistake in a planned U.S.-backed operation to drive ISIS from the Iraqi city of Mosul could result in hundreds of thousands of refugees, Turkish......
Over 140 killed from Saudi airstrikes in Yemen
YEMEN - Saudi-led warplanes struck a funeral at a community hall in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, the country's Houthi-run administration said on Saturday, but the...New famine fears loom in Yemen
An eight-year-old malnourished boy at a hospital in Sanaa, Sept. 27.SANAA — Intensive care wards in Yemen's hospitals are filled with emaciated children hooked up to......
Iraq requests U.N. emergency meeting on Turkish troops in north
BAGHDAD — Iraq has requested an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the presence of Turkish troops on its territory as a dispute with...U.N. envoy offers to escort rebels out of Aleppo
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Special Envoy for Syria offered on Thursday to go to eastern Aleppo and escort up to 1,000 Islamist rebel fighters out of the city to try......
Rebels close in on Dabiq, bomb kills dozens in northern Syria
ANKARA — A bomb claimed by ISIS at a Syria-Turkey border crossing killed at least 25 people, most of them foreign-backed Syrian rebels, and wounded dozens more on...American chess player leads boycott against wearing hijab at Iran tournament
IRAN - The world’s top female chess players have reportedly been told they must wear hijabs if they wish to compete in next year’s world championships in......
U.N. fails to set international probe on Yemen war crimes
Smoke rises from the site of Saudi-led air strikes in Sanaa, Aug. 31 - Photo by ReutersGENEVA — The U.N. Human Rights Council on Thursday declined to set up an...Moscow vows to continue Syria offensive, accuses U.S. of supporting terror
DAMASCUS — The Kremlin vowed on Thursday to press on with its assault in Syria, while U.S. officials searched for a tougher response to Russia's decision to ignore......
Jordanians protest writer’s assassination
AMMAN — Protesters in Jordan demanded that the government resign on Monday for its failure to protect a Christian writer shot dead outside a court where he was to...Iraq PM tells Kurds not to use Mosul battle to expand territory
BAGHDAD — Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi asked Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani not to exploit the war on ISIS to expand the Kurds' territory, according to a......