LEADINA street artist in Mosul is repainting murals left by the Islamic State group with positive messages.Murals were one of the methods the militant group used to spread fear during the two and half years it controlled parts of the...

Mustafa al Tha i worked in secret at night using his brushes and pencils to record the violence he saw during the day under the Islamic State groups brutal reign in Iraq

A Beirut-based analyst said on Wednesday that the administration of US President Donald Trump could be the key mediator in the Gulf crisis.George Alam said the US could help bridge the differences between Saudi Arabia and other nations,...

IRAQ MOSUL PASSENGERSSOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESSRESTRICTIONS: AP CLIENTS ONLYLENGTH: 2:25SHOTLIST:ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLYBaghdad, Iraq - 21 June 20171. Various of Alawi garage in central Baghdad2. Various of a taxi driver calling...

In four years Mohammad al-Hassan only heard his son's voice once: when the young Syrian soldier called a radio show to send regards to his family trapped in jihadist bastion Raqa

Iraqi forces were seen amongst the battered remains of Mosul's main hospital on Tuesday, after re-taking the complex from Islamic State group militants the day before.The fight for the hospital complex - home to a number of tall...

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ICRC officials are visiting Yemen for a firsthand look at the humanitarian crisis and subsequent cholera epid
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They are urging more international action to...

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In the wake of victory against the Islamic State group in Mosul, Iraq's political, religious and military leaders are debating the future of the country's powerful...

Supporters of imprisoned journalists and staff from the Cumhuriyet newspaper gathered outside an Istanbul court on Friday to call for their release.

Hearings have been held every day since...

The deputy commander of the international coalition supporting the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in their battle to retake Raqqa from the Islamic State group (IS) visited the city on Sunday and met officials from the...

US-led coalition spokesman in Iraq Colonel Ryan Dillon said on Thursday that the Kurdish referendum had pulled "efforts and focus" away from the fight against the Islamic State group.

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As Iraq's Kurdish region prepared to vote on whether to secede from Iraq, customers at a tea house in Irbil contemplated a possible future Kurdish state.

In 'Mam Khalil Tea House' in...

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Residents of an Iraqi Christian town are weighing up how to vote at the upcoming independence referendum in the country's northern Kurdish re
gion.
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Arab League Foreign Ministers met in Cairo on Tuesday to discuss a range of regional issues, including the latest developments in Syria, Libya and Yemen as well as counter-terrorism efforts.

The agenda...

Iraq's prime minister said on Saturday that a teenage German girl found in Mosul last month who ran away from home after communicating with Islamic State group extremists online was still being held...

The melancholy ballad sung by anti jihadist fighter Nimer echoes through the makeshift outpost in Syria's Raqa

After three years of forced truancy due to the Islamic State group's seizure of the Iraqi city of Mosul teenager Ali Salem waited nervously outside school to sit an English exam

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A Syrian lawmaker says that the capture of Raqqa, the former de-facto capital of the Islamic State's self-proclaimed caliphate, is not a "liberation" and will not
last.
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They once dreamt of becoming engineers teachers or other professionals but for tens of thousands of Syrian students those hopes were cut short by the war in their homeland

Thousands more Rohingya Muslims are continuing to flee large-scale violence and persecution in Myanmar and crossing into Bangladesh, where more than half a million others are already living in squalid and...

Shiite pilgrims prayed Friday at the Immam Hussein shrine in the southern Iraqi city of Karbala during the Arbaeen religious festival which marks the 40th day after Ashura commemorating the seventh century killing of Prophet Mohammed's...

On the first anniverasary of the arrest of Pro Kurdish Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtas hundreds attend a symbolic signing of his book Seher

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The mass killing and kidnappings of Yazidis in Iraq by Islamic State militants in 2014 is reshaping the Yazidi political scene, giving rise to new political...

A French consulate worker is charged in an Israeli court with arms smuggling following his arrest on accusations he used an official car to transport dozens of guns from the Gaza Strip to the occupied West Bank