Middle East

Ankara hosts Iran, Russia leaders as cooperation deepens to end Syria conflict

ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hosted his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ankara Wednesday for a second trilateral summit, part of ongoing efforts to...

Mosul artist paints over IS graffiti with murals of city’s old glory

WASHINGTON / MOSUL, IRAQ — Walid Dabagh travels across the ruins of Mosul, hunting for traces of the Islamic State's reign of terror. Once he finds it, Dabagh replaces the violent graffiti...

UN: Syria’s Raqqa devastated, largely uninhabitable

GENEVA — A senior U.N. official reports a U.N. assessment mission to Raqqa in northern Syria has found a devastated city, littered with unexploded weapons and largely uninhabitable. The mission, in which...

Syrian government trying to capture another rebel-held area after Eastern Ghouta

WASHINGTON — The Syrian government launched several airstrikes Sunday on the rebel-held eastern Qalamoun area, northeast of Damascus, according to local activists. The airstrikes came as negotiations are underway between local councils...

Pakistani gunmen kill four Christians in Quetta

ISLAMABAD — Gunmen in Pakistan have killed four members of the minority Christian community in the country's southwest, in an attack claimed by Islamic State terrorists. Police said the victims were traveling...

Russian report says deal in place for Syrian rebels to leave Ghouta

Russia's military says there is a preliminary deal for Syrian rebel fighters to pull out of the last remaining area of eastern Ghouta still under their hand. This would put the Syrian...

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