Three members of security forces as well as religious affairs officials were also wounded.

The US and its allies, who backed terrorist groups in Syria, are repurposing the OPCW as a political tool, as evidenced by the falsification of reports on the Douma chemical attack, which had been staged in order to incriminate Damascus.

At least two rockets target an Iraqi air base occupied by American troops in the north of Baghdad.

The Russian foreign minister says the US uses Daesh terrorists to hinder a political solution to the crisis in Syria.

A United Nations (UN) probe finds France guilty of killing a large number of civilians in central Mali, where a persisting French military intervention has already sparked controversy.

At least seven members of the Hazara ethnic group have been killed in Afghanistan’s restive province of Nangarhar.

The US military airlifts the Daesh terrorists from Syria's northeastern province of Hasakah to their occupied bases in Dayr al-Zawr, say local reports.

Swarms of helicopter gunships and drones are flying over al-Anbar as the US is setting up its second military base in western Iraq near the Syrian border, a report says.   

Daesh has announced that its members are fighting alongside Saudi-backed mercenaries against Yemeni forces in the province of Ma’rib.

A Kabul University professor has been killed when a bomb ripped through his car in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul.