“We are committed to distancing Iraq from regional wars,” Hussein said. “Baghdad does not desire escalation in the region.” Iraqi Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein warned that the threat posed by ISIS has resurfaced, cautioning that the extremist group is actively regrouping and planning attacks. His remarks came in a special …

Israel bombed an area near the presidential palace in Damascus early on Friday, in its clearest warning yet to Syria’s new Islamist-led authorities of its readiness to ramp up military action in the name of the country’s Druze minority.Syria’s government called the bombing a “dangerous escalation” amid increasing hostility between …

In early 2018, near the tail end of a major cryptocurrency boom, a Lithuanian start-up called Bankera announced that it had managed to raise over 100 million euros in just six months by selling its own digital coin. The company said the funds would be used to fashion a “bank …