Middle East
Truck bomb attack in Syria kills 22 in Kurdish-held town
At least 22 people were killed by three truck bombs in a Kurdish-controlled town in northeastern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human ...Syrian opposition agree joint group for peace talks
Opponents of Syria\'s President Bashar al-Assad agreed on Thursday to bring together political and armed factions in a single body in preparation ...Palestinian shot dead after wounding two Israelis in West Bank stabbing
A Palestinian was shot dead by security forces after wounding an Israeli soldier and a civilian when he stabbed them in the ...Syrian rebels leave last Homs district under truce deal
Hundreds of civilians and Syrian rebel forces began evacuating the last opposition-held district in the central city of Homs early Wednesday under ...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, ...




