The United States has been negotiating a ceasefire with Turkey.

The Turkish offensive has displaced at least 130,000 people.

Hundreds of Islamic State-affiliated foreigners escaped during heavy shelling.

The ancient city, almost destroyed by ISIS, could re-open to tourists next year.

Over one hundred people have been killed in a suicide bombing in Pakistan, the deadliest violence ahead of the parliamentary election. Footage: AP

Violent clashes have engulfed streets in Arab nations following decision on Jerusalem.

Mass graves found in Iraqi area retaken from Islamic State group. AP

Iraq has launched its biggest fight against Isis. PM Haider al-Abadi pledged to raise the Iraqi flag over Mosul once more.

Russia-US relations fell to a new post-Cold War low as the Obama Administration abandoned efforts to cooperate with Russia on ending the Syrian civil war.

A disfiguring tropical disease has spread across the Middle East as millions are displaced from the war-torn region.

The US military has dealt a potential blow to the Taliban whose insurgent assaults pose a major obstacle to US hopes for ending the war in Afghanistan.

Lebanon's Hizbollah militia has blamed the killing of a militant described as its top commander in Syria on extremist Sunni insurgents.

Recovering in Turkey after a deadly air strike in Aleppo, all Abu Abdu Tebyiah could think about was the six children he had been forced to leave behind.

The Isis affiliate in Egypt prompts Israel, Egypt and the Palestinian militant group Hamas to form an unlikely alliance against the terrorist group.

Foreign Minister Murray McCully says Israel's latest land seizure deserves response from UN Security Council.

Putin's announcement that Russia will begin withdrawing the "main part" of its military from Syria is a surprise potential end to a six-month intervention.

Isis militants killed dozens of people in two major attacks on Baghdad yesterday, bombing a market and assaulting security forces on the city's outskirts.

Across Syria's battered and blasted landscape, the relief was palpable as an unlikely truce actually took hold.

In the year 2000, the CIA commissioned a report on what global trends will be in 2015. Here's what they got right and wrong.

Photos show towering rugby star's heartwarming visit to Syrian refugee camp.

The terrifying extent of Isis' plans to build a state laid bare in a 24-page manual for the terror group leaked to the Guardian.

Corbyn called the plan for strikes an 'ill-fated twist in never-ending war on terror', but lost the support of his caucus.

Mohammed Emwazi was killed by a missile fired from a Reaper drone over Raqqa in Syria.

One of the men impersonated a pregnant woman and was pushed in a wheelchair.

Kickstarter, Twitter, Airbnb and Instacart - are working to adapt their platforms and technologies to help solve the refugee crisis.

The Prime Minister has set a deadline of two years to quit Iraq. You suspect he wants it to be sooner.

Having accepted that President Bashar al-Assad will stay in power for a "transitional period", the US is trying to persuade Russia and Iran to curb the worst excesses of their ally.

Nothing less than a multifaceted strategy is required to address both the political causes and the military symptoms of the rise of Isis, writes Robert Patman.

My role, as a journalist, should be to act as a witness; to report on the situation as a bystander and then leave it as I found it, but an incident in 2013 changed my perspective, writes Rachel Smalley.

Rachel Smalley is set to return to the Middle East this year as she continues to spread awareness and raise money for the growing refugee crisis.