Syria has condemned a terrorist act that targeted an Iranian private merchant ship. The attack targeted the Shahr Kurd last Wednesday in the international waters of the Mediterranean, as the ship made its way to Europe. An official source at Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said that it hasn’t ruled out …

Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani said that “chauvinist ideology” is still prevalent in Iraq. “It is indeed shameful that even after the bombardment of Halabja with chemical weapons and the genocide against the people of Kurdistan, chauvinistic thinking remains dominant in Iraq, and that the rights of the people of Kurdistan …

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said that rebels had killed twelve members of Syrian government forces in Daraa, Southwestern the country. SOHR founder and director, Rami Abdul Rahman, said, “a group of militants attacked two military trucks and two mini-vans of the regime forces in the vicinity of …