Middle East

Syrian government forces accused of dropping barrel bombs containing chlorine from the helicopters on the suburb of Aleppo, injuring 80 people. Volunteer emergency workers said that people suffered breathing difficulties after the attack on the Sukkari area. A UN-led inquiry concluded last month that the government had used chlorine on...

Russia has used an Iranian air base to launch airstrikes against the targets in Syria, Russia's defense ministry and the Iran's official state news agency reported. Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi, termed Moscow's use of the bases as a "temporary mission, that had ended." "Russia has no base in...

"They know about the preparations for retaking Mosul, so they're resorting to chemical attacks more often than before to show their capabilities and power, and prove that they can protect and defend their area," General Mahmoud Ali, head of a Peshmerga engineering unit said. As the Iraqi and Kurdish forces...

The Egyptian military has killed the head of the Sinai branch of so-called Islamic State (IS), along with dozens of its fighters. The air strikes were targeted at jihadist strongholds near the town of El-Arish. Abu Duaa al-Ansari, head of the Islamic State's Sinai branch was killed in a...