BAGHDAD — Iraqi President Barham Salih said on Monday that President Donald Trump did not ask Iraq's permission for US troops stationed there to "watch Iran."
Speaking at a forum in Baghdad, Salih was responding to a question about Trump's comments (...)
MOHAMMED FATHI sat calmly on a plastic chair, twiddling his prayer beads as machine gun fire erupted from a neighbor's house, incoming bullets crackled overhead and helicopters strafed targets nearby in western Mosul.
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NASSER lifts another cigarette to his mouth with a scarred left hand, chain smoking and watching action films on a grainy TV at his friend's flat in a Beirut suburb. Since deserting President Bashar Al-Assad's army he mostly avoids venturing (...)
BEIRUT — US-backed Syrian fighters including Kurds advanced against Daesh (the so-called IS) in the last tract of territory the group holds near the Turkish border on Wednesday, a monitoring group said, opening a major new front with US-led air (...)
In a small studio in central Beirut, more than a dozen refugee women from Syria dash about barefoot as they rehearse a play about their experiences as war migrants.
"We get to a new country ... people stare at us," one actress says while others put (...)
