Aid airdrops to Syria's besieged are 'too dangerous'
As images and reports of starvation in besieged Syrian communities drew an international outcry and two rare aid convoys this month, an urgent question...
Under Iraq’s Sinjar, ISIS militants built network of tunnels
Under the Iraqi town of Sinjar, ISIS militants have built a network of tunnels, complete with sleeping quarters, wired with electricity and fortified with...
Drawing the horror of a Syrian detention centre
A Syrian artist who was accused of being an opposition activist and tortured in a detention center has drawn pictures of his experiences -...
Political paralysis leaves Palestinians questioning their future
As Israel frets about the lifting of sanctions on Iran and its troubled relations with the European Union, on the other side of the...
Embattled President Hadi returns to Yemen after six-month exile
President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi set foot in Yemen on Tuesday for the first time since Shiite rebels drove him into exile in Saudi...
Ben Carson recasts role of Saudi Arabia in hunt for Osama bin Laden
The Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson on Sunday upended a widely accepted narrative of the hunt for Osama bin Laden that followed the 11...
U.S. sanctions businessman helping Syrian government buy oil from Islamic State
The United States sanctioned a Syrian businessman on Wednesday who it said was a middleman for oil sales between Islamic State and the Syrian...
ISIS eyeing oil targets beyond Syria stronghold: U.S. official
Islamic State is looking at potentially vulnerable oil assets in Libya and elsewhere outside its Syria stronghold, where the militant group controls about roughly...
Anti-ISIS coalition must 'tighten noose' in Syria: U.K Defense Minister Michael Fallon
The coalition of countries fighting so-called Islamic State (ISIS) must focus on a "tightening of the noose" around its Syrian heartlands, UK defence minister...
In taking economic war to Islamic State, U.S. developing new tools
Since last month, U.S. warplanes have struck Islamic State's oil infrastructure in Syria in a stepped-up campaign of economic warfare that the United States...
