Islamic State kills 700 prisoners in east Syria
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Wednesday that Islamic State militants had executed nearly 700…
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Iraqi forces complete Kirkuk province takeover after clashes with Kurds
Iraqi forces on Friday took control of the last district in the oil-rich province of Kirkuk still in the hands of…
Iraq calls on BP to ‘quickly’ develop disputed oilfields after seizing areas…
Iraq urged BP to help develop oilfields in the disputed city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, after central government…
US-backed SDF to let Syrian ISIS fighters leave Raqqa
Syrian Islamic State fighters are set to abandon Raqqa in a withdrawal agreed with U.S.-backed Syrian militias…
ISIS ceasefire deal convoy reaches east Syria: Hezbollah-run media
A convoy of Islamic State fighters and their families reached an exchange point in eastern Syria on Tuesday, a…
US-backed Syrian fighters pressure ISIS militants in Raqqa
U.S.-backed Syrian fighters advancing from eastern and western parts of the northern city of Raqqa have linked up…
Blast targets al-Qaida office in Syria, causing casualties
Syrian opposition activists and state media say an explosion has targeted an office of the al-Qaida affiliate in…
7,000 Syrian refugees and fighters return home from Lebanon
More than a hundred buses carrying thousands of al-Qaeda-linked fighters and Syrian refugees drove down a dirt…
Erdogan says Turkey to respond to any threats on its border
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday Turkey would not watch passively as weapons are sent to Kurdish…
Revenge for Sinjar: Syrian Kurds free Islamic State slaves
Islamic State militants enslaved Noura Khalaf for three years, dragging her from her small Iraqi village across…
Militants holding out in Philippine town face ‘paralyzed’ logistics: army
The siege of Marawi City in the southern Philippines could be over soon because the logistics of the Islamist…
Philippine troops find stash of banknotes as fighters pull back
Philippines troops found bundles of banknotes and cheques worth about $1.6 million abandoned by Islamist…
Syrian force urges Raqqa jihadists to surrender by end-May
A U.S.-backed alliance of Syrian militias promised on Thursday that no harm would come to Islamic State fighters…
North Sinai tribesmen kill 8 suspected IS militants
A powerful local tribe in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula says it killed eight suspected Islamic State (IS) fighters in…
Powerful Saudi prince sees no chance for dialogue with Iran
Saudi Arabia's powerful deputy crown prince ruled out on Tuesday any dialogue with arch rival Iran and pledged to…
US-backed militias oust IS from Syria’s Tabqa old city
U.S.-backed militias said on Monday they had pushed Islamic State fighters out of the old quarters of Tabqa, a…
Iraq forces restore town of Hatra southwest of Mosul: source
Iraqi forces on Thursday retook the town of Hatra, southwest of Mosul, on the third day of an operation that saw…
IS death toll hits 90 from huge US bomb in Afghanistan
Afghan authorities Saturday reported a jump in fatalities from the American military's largest non-nuclear bomb,…
IS launches two suicide attacks on US-backed Syrian rebels
IS group militants launched two suicide attacks on U.S.-backed Syrian rebels near the border with Iraq, leaving at…
Evacuations of opposition fighters resume in Syria’s Homs
Syrian state TV says scores of opposition fighters and their families have left the central city of Homs after…
Syrian opposition fed up with terrorists, seeks help against Assad
The Syrian opposition rejects terrorism and is "fed up" with banned militants but they cannot be stopped if Syria…
US-led coalition in Syrian airdrop to fight ISIS
U.S.-led coalition aircraft dropped fighters for the first time into an area near the Syrian city of Raqqa to…
East Libya’s forces suffer losses as lengthy Benghazi battle continues: official
Fierce clashes resumed on Monday at a tower block complex in southwest Benghazi where forces loyal to Libya's…
ISIS imposes ‘Afghan dress’ in Syria’s Raqa: monitor, activists
The Islamic State (ISIS) group has imposed an "Afghan-style" dress code on men in its Syrian stronghold Raqa to…
Nigeria militants say readying fighters to hit ‘enemy’ in Niger Delta
A Nigerian militant group, which has claimed a wave of attacks on oil pipelines in the Niger Delta, said on Friday…
Dispute holds up evacuation from ‘hell’ of Aleppo
The evacuation of the last opposition-held areas of the Syrian city of Aleppo was suspended on Friday after…
Dispute holds up evacuation from ‘hell’ of Aleppo
The evacuation of the last opposition-held areas of the Syrian city of Aleppo was suspended on Friday after…
Islamic State strikes back to slow Iraqi forces in Mosul
Islamic State fighters retreating in the face of a seven-week Iraqi military assault on their Mosul stronghold…
Mosul battle: Iraqi special forces ‘break front line’
Iraqi forces fighting so-called Islamic State (IS) in Mosul have broken through the front line without suffering…
Islamic State holds up Iraqi army south of Mosul
Islamic State fighters kept up on Wednesday their fierce defense of the southern approaches to Mosul, which has…
Iraqi elite unit, Kurdish forces in fresh push to close in on Mosul
An Iraqi army elite unit and Kurdish fighters on Thursday launched a fresh offensive to dislodge Islamic State…
Turkish soldier killed, 18 Islamic State fighters ‘neutralized’ in Syria clash
One Turkish soldier was killed and three slightly wounded in a clash with Islamic State fighters in Syria in…
Syrian rebels ‘seize key town Manbij from IS’
A US-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters has taken "almost complete control" of a strategically important…
Clashes rock Syria’s Manbij as IS ignores ultimatum
Islamic State group militants clashed on Saturday with US-backed fighters in the Syrian town of Manbij, pursuing…
Hezbollah to send more fighters to Syria’s Aleppo
The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement said on Friday it will send more fighters to Syria's Aleppo area, a…
ISIS halts Iraqi army at gates of Falluja
Islamic State fighters halted an Iraqi army assault on the city of Falluja with a counter-attack at its southern…
Turkish military kills 55 ISIS fighters north of Aleppo
The Turkish military killed 55 Islamic State fighters in shelling north of the Syrian city of Aleppo on Saturday…
Islamic State kills U.S. serviceman in Iraq
Islamic State fighters killed a U.S. serviceman in northern Iraq on Tuesday when they overran Kurdish defenses…
Evacuation of three Syrian towns to go ahead Monday under rare deal
Besieged rebel fighters in a Syrian border town and families trapped in two Shi'ite towns in northern Syria are…
Number of Foreign Fighters in Iraq and Syria Double to 31,000
The number of foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria has more than doubled since last year to at least 27,000, a…