Despite their defeat, an estimated 20,000-30,000 Daesh fighters are still in Syria and Iraq, according to a UN report published Monday. The report on Daesh and Al-Qaeda, which was presented to the Security Council, said a smaller number of Daesh...

KARIN – Meeting in the Kazakh port city of Aqtau, the leaders of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan have signed a new convention on the legal status of the resource-rich Caspian Sea — a matter disputed between the five...

(CNN)Colombian President Iván Duque is facing a diplomatic row with Israel in his first week in office after the outgoing government recognized Palestine just days before the end of its term. The announcement was made public Wednesday, with the release...

WESTERN ARMENIA – The official account for the Presidency of the Syrian Arab Republic announced on August 8 that Bashar al-Assad’s wife Asma has been diagnosed with a malignant breast tumor. Syria’s 42-year-old first lady has begun treatment for early...

Former French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius testified last week in the case against cement manufacturer Lafarge, that is suspected of financing terrorist groups in Syria in exchange for keeping its plant running in the country in the midst of war....

(Sinjar) region. In a few short days, the group had killed over 10,000 Yezidis. Another 6,417 were kidnapped, and many of them were sold into sexual slavery. Hundreds of Christians in towns across the Nineveh Plain who did not flee...

WESTERN ARMENIA – A Chinese campaign to forcibly assimilate ethnic Uyghurs in its north-western province of Xinjiang in a bid to erase nationalist sentiment, counter militancy, and create an ‘Uyghur Islam with Chinese characteristics’ ignores lessons learnt not only from...

From arbitrary detentions and deliberate deprivation, to attacks against civilians and forced displacements, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, expressed “acute concerns” on Monday over the current human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory....

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, and chief of General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, in Jerusalem on Monday to discuss the situation in southern Syria, said Russia’s Foreign Ministry. The meeting took place as Syrian regime...

KILIKYA – According to President Hassan Rouhani of Iran says the United States should know that peace with Iran will be the mother of all peace while war with the country will be the mother of all wars. He made...