Russia: Syria Peace Talks Are ‘Indefinitely Delayed’
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has accused Western countries of failing to rein in violent rebels in Syria, and said the resumption of peace...
Iraq-Turkey Tension Rises Amid Battle For Mosul
Iraq's prime minister has warned Turkey against provoking a confrontation while saying he does not want war. Haider al-Abadi made the comments after Turkey deployed tanks and...
Questions Over Intended Destination of Houthi Missile Attack
Editorial | Oct 31, 2016 THE Saudi-Houthi conflict took a dangerous turn as reports emerged on Friday that the Yemeni rebel group had fired a...
Turkey Detains Editor, Staff Of Leading Opposition Paper
“An accelerated descent into dictatorship” was how one journalist summed up the Oct. 31 raid on Cumhuriyet, one of a handful of surviving opposition outlets, which saw...
Heaven Can Wait – By Owen Bennett-Jones
OWEN BENNETT-JONES | Oct 26, 2016 JUST two years ago, it was said the jihadis could conquer Baghdad. Today they are on the run. When...
Muslims mistake synagogue for mosque in Israeli airport, use prayer shawls as prayer mats
Jews in Israeli Ben Gurion International Airport were quite taken aback after they saw several Turkish Muslims praying in the airport’s synagogue, apparently mistaking...
US-led coalition killed 300 Syrian civilians in 11 probed strikes – Amnesty
Around 300 civilians were killed in eleven airstrikes conducted by the US-led coalition in Syria, which Amnesty International investigated for its latest report. Amnesty...
The ‘Sniper of Mosul’ is picking off jihadis one-by-one
A renegade sniper has been striking fear into the hearts of terrorists in Mosul — picking off local jihadis one-by-one, including an ISIS executioner...
20 minutes from modern Jerusalem, a Palestinian village is stranded in the past
JUBBET ADH DHIB, West Bank — Let there be light. That is a plea of residents of this Palestinian village who have waited nearly...
Pictures of two Egyptian children engaged to be married trigger outrage — once again
Cairo: At the wedding, held in a province about 75 miles north of Cairo, the guests didn’t find it strange. Some would later tell...
Plans to send heavier weapons to CIA-backed rebels in Syria stall amid White House skepticism
As rebel-held sections of Aleppo crumbled under Russian bombing this month, the Obama administration was secretly weighing plans to rush more firepower to CIA-backed...
Isis kills dozens and seizes hostages in counter-attack on Kirkuk
Battered and in retreat over much of northern Iraq, Islamic State has launched a surprise counterattack far from its last redoubt of Mosul, taking...