(VOVworld) - Kuwait has detained 60 people and closed a local charity for alleged violations in raising funds for Syrians, local media said Tuesday, as part of a crackdown on...
(VOVworld) – Islamic State militants killed at least 23 Kurdish people, including women and children, in the Syrian border town of Kobani on Thursday
(VOVworld) - Russian President Vladimir Putin phoned US President Barack Obama on Thursday to discuss the Iran nuclear talks, and the need to counter Islamic State militants
(VOVworld) – Syrian government soldiers have made “tangible” military progress in the al-Biyarat area of western Palmyra and reopened a major supply route for oil and gas to Damascus
(VOVworld) - A total of 40 Islamic State (IS) militants were killed on Saturday in US-led coalition air strikes and clashes with Iraqi security forces and allied militias in Iraq's...
(VOVworld) - Boko Haram militants attacked two villages in southern Niger's Diffa region overnight, killing at least 30 civilians, two security sources said on Thursday
(VOVworld) – Israel has established a closed military zone along its border with Syria in the northern Golan Heights, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Tuesday
(VOVworld) – US President Barack Obama announced Wednesday the deployment of 450 additional troops to Iraq, deepening US involvement in the fight against the Islamic State (IS)
(VOVworld) - Israel has released the speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council Aziz Dweik after almost a year in prison following an army crackdown over the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers
(VOVworld) – US President Barack Obama said on Monday he was confident Islamic State militants (IS) would be driven out of Iraq and defeated
(VOVworld) – Iraqi troops backed by Shiite militias recaptured key parts of the northern refinery town of Beiji and some strategic places near Fallujah from the Islamic State on Sunday
(VOVworld) – A suicide car bomb detonated at a military base in Iraq's western province of Anbar on Monday, killing at least 38 members of the security force and wounding 25 others. The attack...
(VOVworld) – Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has called for action from Pakistan against Taliban militants in a letter seeking greater anti-terrorism cooperation
(VOVworld) – 68 people were injured in a suicide bombing in Qualat City, the capital of southern Afghan province Zabul, local authorities said on Monday
(VOVworld) - Iraqi security forces and allied militias on Saturday retook control of a small town east of Ramadi, capital of Anbar province, after heavy clashes with Islamic State (IS) militants
(VOVworld) - The United States signaled no intent to shift its strategy in Iraq's war on Monday, even as the fall of the city of Ramadi to Islamic State. The loss...
(VOVworld) - The Islamic State (IS) militant group on Sunday took full control of the Iraqi city of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, after security forces withdrew from their positions
(VOVworld)- On Sunday, Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza made his first appearance in the capital since last Wednesday’s attempted coup
(VOVworld) - First US operation of its kind in Syria kills Abu Sayyaf, captures his wife and frees a young Yazidi woman who appears to have been held as a slave...
(VOVworld) - The Cairo Criminal Court issued preliminary death sentences against Morsi and 105 other defendants in the case publicly known as the “Wadi al-Natron jailbreak.”