Russia says air force has not hit civilian targets in Syria
Russian air forces have not hit civilian targets since they started a bombing campaign in Syria nearly three months ago, a senior Russian officer...
Iran denounces Saudi Arabia over haj and demands apology
Iran demanded an apology from Saudi Arabia on Sunday over the deaths of 769 people at the haj pilgrimage and accused it of trying...
U.S. conducting 'serious review' of alleged Iran missile test
The United States is reviewing and seeking to confirm reports that Iran launched a ballistic missile last month in violation of U.N. Security Council...
Kingdom Saudi Arabia’s step to stabilize oil market
As a step to stabilize the oil market, leading world crude exporter Saudi Arabia on Thursday made a call for a meeting of the...
Beijing vows justice after ISIS kills Chinese captive
China vowed on Thursday to bring to justice those responsible for killing one of its citizens after ISIS said it had executed a Chinese...
Gunmen shoot Egypt university dean
Masked men on a motorcycle shot and wounded the dean of an Egyptian university Thursday outside his home, police said.
Abdel Hakim Nur al-Din, head...
Iraqi troops storm into center of ISIS-held Ramadi
Iraq's armed forces stormed the center of Ramadi on Tuesday, a spokesman for the counter-terrorism units said, in a drive to dislodge Islamic State...
France says Syria allies must exert maximum pressure to ensure truce
France's foreign ministry called on Russia and Iran to exert "maximum pressure" on the Syrian government to implement a United Nations-backed ceasefire in eastern...
Kurdish-allied Arab fighters move to Syria’s Afrin from IS fronts
Kurdish-allied Syrian Arab militias are redeploying 1,700 fighters from fronts against Islamic State to the Afrin region to help fend off a Turkish offensive,...
Western Syria under heavy Russian bomb shelling
A wave of Russian air strikes in western Syria on Wednesday was being accompanied by a ground assault on at least four insurgent positions,...
