Iraq's National Alliance parliamentary bloc has chosen Haidar al-Abadi as its nominee for prime minister in place of incumbent Nuri al-Maliki, sources in parliament told AFP Monday.
If Israel does not lift the siege on the Gaza Strip, there will be no end in sight to the fighting in the impoverished enclave, a senior UN humanitarian official says.
Former Zionist war minister has admitted to the failure of the regime’s 'Solid Rock' operation against the besieged Gaza strip and the success of the Palestinian resistance in pushing the Israeli forces towards a war of attrition.
An American journalist insists that Washington, the Tel Aviv regime and their Western allies have offered “direct assistance” to ISIL terrorist forces and thus facilitated the advance of the Takfiri group in Iraq.
Around 250,000 of Gaza's 1.8 million residents have been displaced, while some 65,000 have lost their home in the fighting, according to UN figures.
A senior Iranian lawmaker has slammed recent US military strikes against ISIL terrorists in Iraq as ineffective and a mere show of force, pointing to Washington’s earlier refusal to assist Baghdad in confronting the foreign-backed terror group.
The Israeli regime’s Economy Minister Naftali Bennett has complained that the Zionist mission in the Gaza Strip has not been realized, as a new ceasefire temporarily halts the regime's month-long offensive against the impoverished enclave.
At least 20,000 civilians who had been besieged by ISIL terrorists on a mountain in northern Iraq have safely escaped to Syria and been escorted by Kurdish forces back into Iraq, officials said Sunday.
People in Bahraini have waged a protest rally to voice their outrage over Saudi Arabia’s persisting crackdown on the Shia population in the US-backed Persian Gulf country.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s outgoing Prime Minister, has won the country's first direct presidential election in the first round after capturing over 50 percent of the cast vote, according to Turkish election board.