Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Jordan aim to jointly tackle Islamic State, Ankara says
Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Jordan will take steps toward jointly combating Islamic State in the region and they aim to hold a ...
Kremlin, on Trump's Gaza comments, says Russia backs Palestinian state alongside Israel
Russia believes a settlement in the Middle East is only possible on the basis of a two-state solution, the Kremlin said on ...
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Iraq's famed 'hunchback' of Mosul rebuilt brick by brick
The leaning minaret of Mosul in northern Iraq has been restored using its original brickwork, years after it was reduced to ...
Islamic State members held for years in a Syria prison say they know nothing of the world
A prison in Syria holds about 4,500 members of the Islamic State group who have been there for years without trial ...
Exclusive-BP poised to invest up to $25 billion in Iraq’s Kirkuk oil and gas
Oil major BP is expected to spend up to $25 billion over the lifetime of a project to redevelop four Kirkuk oil and gas ...
Turkey says it will join with neighbors to fight the Islamic State group in Syria
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Jordan will come together to fight the remnants of the ...
The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims and a philanthropist, dies at 88
The Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims, has died. Karim Al-Hussaini became the Aga Khan at age 20 as a Harvard ...
Officer kicked and beat handcuffed inmate, breaking his ribs at Florida prison, feds say
The inmate was identified in court filings as Mufid Elfgeeh, “one of the first Islamic State group terrorist recruiters ever ...
US-backed commander says his Kurdish-led group wants a secular and civil state in post-Assad Syria
Abdi said the Kurds of Syria do not want to break away from the country or set up their own autonomous government and ...
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Regime change in Syria has Iraqi factions backtracking on push for US withdrawal
BAGHDAD — The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces to exit the country, multiple Iraqi and American officials ...
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U.S. Funding Freeze Threatens Security at ISIS Camps in Syria
A halt in foreign aid may undermine American organizations’ support for forces that guard the two largest camps holding Islamic State members ... swaths of Syria and Iraq and launched deadly ...