Middle East
Iraq forces retake large part of key city Ramadi from IS
Iraqi security forces recaptured a large part of the city of Ramadi from the Islamic State group Tuesday, officials said, scoring a ...UN says 12,000 Syrian refugees stranded at Jordan border
Around 12,000 people who have fled the war in Syria are stranded at the Jordanian border, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ...Syrian government says U.S.-led coalition hit army camp
The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group denied Monday its planes carried out air strikes that killed at least three Syrian ...Assad says British bombing in Syria will fail, ridicules PM Cameron
British air strikes on Islamic State will fail to defeat the militant group, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with ...Turkish soldiers deployed in Mosul to train Iraqi troops: reports
More than 100 Turkish soldiers have been deployed to an area near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, which is under Islamic ...Regime bombardment across Syria kills 56 civilians
Heavy government bombardment of rebel-held towns across Syria on Friday killed at least 56 civilians, more than a quarter of them children, ...German parliament approves military campaign against Islamic State in Syria
Germany\'s lower house of parliament on Friday approved government plans to join the military campaign against Islamic State in Syria. Of the ...16 killed, 5 hurt in firebomb attack at nightclub in Egypt
A firebomb attack on a nightclub in Cairo early Friday killed 16 people and wounded five others, authorities said. Police were looking for ...Putin swears to make Turkey regret plane downing as diplomats meet
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday vowed Turkey\'s leadership would be made to regret the downing of one of Moscow\'s warplanes as ...British bombers strike Islamic State oil fields in Syria
British bombers made their first strikes on Islamic State in Syria on Thursday, hitting oil fields that Prime Minister David Cameron says ...




