(VOVworld) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hailed the liberation of the ancient city of Palmyra from IS, saying the victory shows the effectiveness of the army’s strategy in its...
(VOVworld) – On Saturday UN chief Ban Ki-moon urged Iraq's politicians to support Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's reform drive and stressed the need for national reconciliation
(VOVworld) – Turkish police arrested three suspected members of the Islamic State (IS) in Istanbul on Wednesday who were plotting attacks on German diplomatic missions and schools in Turkey
(VOVworld) – Iraqi militants retreated from several western Iraqi towns and towards the Syrian border on Sunday as security forces worked their way up the Euphrates Valley
(VOVworld) – Iraq reports that Islamic State militants had conducted two chemical attacks near Kirkuk city, killing a child and injuring approximately 600 people. The latest attack was on Saturday in Taza...
(VOVworld) - Germany’s federal criminal police said Thursday that they are in possession of files containing personal data on members of the extremist group IS and believe them to be...
(VOVworld) - Macedonia has closed its borders completely to illegal migrants after Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia announced new tight restrictions on migrant entry, a police official said on Wednesday
(VOVworld) - At least 31 people were killed and 57 others were wounded by a suicide bomb at an Iraqi checkpoint in Northern Hilla, 95 kilometers south of Baghdad on Sunday
(VOVworld) - Turkey has offered to sign readmission agreements with 14 countries, the foreign ministry's spokesman said on Wednesday, a move which would help minimize the number of migrants to Europe....
(VOVworld) - The European Union fears Mediterranean migrant smuggling gangs are reviving a route from Egypt, putting thousands of people to sea in recent months as they face problems in Libya...
(VOVworld) - Two suicide bombers blew themselves up at a Shiite mosque in Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 15 people
(VOVworld) – Dutch F-16 fighter jets bombed Islamic State targets in Syria for the first time since broadening its mission in the US-led air campaign, the defense ministry said...
(VOVworld) - Tests by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) have confirmed that Islamic State militants used mustard gas in an attack against Kurdish militia in Iraq in August...
(VOVworld) - The Iraqi security forces fought fierce clashes with IS militants and retook control of the eastern part of the city of Ramadi, while the troops seized a road linking...
(VOVworld) – Seventy five Islamic State militants were killed on Monday as the Iraqi security forces recaptured two areas from the extremist militants in eastern city of Ramadi, Anbar province
(VOVworld) - The Netherlands has agreed to join a US-led air strikes against Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria, the government says
(VOVworld) – On Sunday, the Islamic State group released a video showing nine Paris attackers on November 13, 2015 killing 130 people
(VOVWorld) – Nearly 19.000 Iraqi civilians were killed and approximately 3 million people displaced by ‘staggering’ violence in a 22-month period as Iraqi forces battled the Islamic State group,...
(VOVworld) - Iraq is preparing itself for complete annihilation of terrorist groups in the country including the Islamic State group, Iraqi National Security Adviser Faleh al-Fayad said on Sunday
(VOVworld) - The bodies of nine people were found on Turkey's western coast this week as the flow of Europe-bound migrants persisted despite rough winter weather and the efforts...