Iraqi forces advanced into a town south of Mosul Saturday as an Iraqi Shi’ite militia joined the offensive by opening up a new front to the west. Iraqi troops approaching Mosul from the south advanced into Shura after a wave of U.S.-led airstrikes and artillery […]
KHAZIR CAMP, KURDISH IRAQ — As Iraqi families speed away from the frontlines of the battle against Islamic State in trucks, the thousands of tents in the desert countryside surrounding Mosul are slowly being occupied by fleeing villagers. Some say the militant group appears to […]
Syrian government forces and their allies launched a counteroffensive Saturday under the cover of airstrikes trying to regain control of areas they had lost to insurgents the day before in the northern city of Aleppo, activists and state media said. The government had reported it […]
“The year has 16 months: November, December, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, November, November, November,” writes the Danish poet Henrik Nordbrandt in a disheartening comment on the month we are about to enter. And Nordbrandt is not the only […]
Families arriving at camps surrounding Mosul say they are fleeing Islamic State militants in the villages surrounding the city, and the ongoing battle. VOA’s Heather Murdock has more from the Khazi province, where new camps have been set up to take in some of the […]
Following the infamous Calais ‘Jungle’ camp closure, many of those displaced have been relocating to Paris. RT crew talked to Parisians, both newly-arrived and native, to find out how this is affecting the city. Trends EU refugee & migrant influx Despite French Minister of Housing […]
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government forces launched a counteroffensive Saturday under the cover of airstrikes in an attempt to regain control of areas they had lost to insurgents the day before in the northern city of Aleppo, activists and state media said. Meanwhile, insurgents launched […]
BEIRUT (AP) — Airstrikes in Syria killed up to 22 people, mostly children, on Wednesday when warplanes struck a residential area housing a school complex in the northern rebel-held province of Idlib, activists and rescue workers said. A team of first responders, the Syrian Civil […]
Iraqi Shi’ite militias launched an offensive toward the west of Mosul on Saturday, an operation that will tighten the noose around Islamic State’s Iraq stronghold but has alarmed Turkey and could inflame tensions in the mainly Sunni area. The battle for Mosul is expected to […]
NNA – Democratic Gathering” head, MP Walid Jumblatt, declared on Friday his nomination of head of “Change and Reform” bloc, MP General Michel Aoun, to presidency. “The majority of the Democratic Gathering and the Progressive Socialist Party will vote in favor of General Aoun,” MP […]
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