The US and Russia coexistence in northeast Syria
Washington first deployed troops in northeast Syria in 2014 as part of a coalition to combat the Islamic State group.
Russia has militarily backed the...
Is Ramadi the model for defeating ISIS in Iraq?
The Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) raised their national flag over the Anbar provincial government headquarters in Ramadi on 28 December, marking the return of...
Obama urges NATO to stand firm against Russia despite Brexit
U.S. President Barack Obama urged NATO leaders on Friday to stand firm against a resurgent Russia over its seizure of Crimea from Ukraine, saying...
Riyadh condemns racism against Muslim refugees
Saudi Arabia has expressed deep concern about the “increasing hostile, racist and inhuman rhetoric against refugees in general and Muslim refugees in particular.”
All countries,...
Netanyahu moves to dampen inflammatory Al-Aqsa talk
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scrambled Tuesday to contain inflammatory rhetoric from his government over Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound, at the heart of a...
Inside Assad's Syria
For the past month, Russian bombs over Syria have further complicated the civil war, a conflict that has been tearing the country apart for...
Arab coalition faces new IS foe in Yemen conflict
An unprecedented attack on Yemen's government claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group has raised a fresh challenge for the Saudi-led coalition backing the...
Islamists rise as chaos descends in Yemen's cosmopolitan port
In Aden, Yemen's most cosmopolitan city, the masked Islamist gunmen seem to have burst onto the streets from some other world.
They storm university classrooms...
Victory proves elusive in Saudi king's Yemen war
In Yemen's humid southern port of Aden, Saudi Arabian soldiers in armoured cars patrol streets where jihadists lurk. In Marib, east of the capital...
Iran is preparing to a launch a satellite into space
This Jan. 26, 2020, satellite image from Planet Labs Inc. shows preparations at a rocket launch pad at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in...
