Hundreds flee IS enclave in Syria before final assault
Hundreds of people crammed onto trucks leaving the last scrap of the Islamic State group's "caliphate" in eastern…
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IS ‘caliphate’ is close to defeat in Syria as Trump urges Europe to do more
U.S.-backed fighters in Syria are poised to capture Islamic State’s last, tiny enclave on the Euphrates, the…
Syria regime enters IS-held town in ‘severe blow’ to IS
Regime forces Friday broke into the eastern town of Mayadeen, one of the Islamic State (IS) militant group's last…
Iraq forces retake centre of IS bastion Hawija: army
Iraqi forces said Thursday they had retaken the centre of Islamic State group stronghold Hawija and were pushing…
Syria’s deadliest month of 2017 claims 3,000 lives
Syria's war killed at least 3,000 people including 955 civilians in September, the deadliest month of the conflict…
Assad’s march east compounds West’s Syria dilemma
Syria's war has entered a new phase as President Bashar al-Assad extends his grip in areas being captured from…
Lebanon’s army prepares to clear border area of ISIS militants
Lebanon’s U.S.-backed military is gearing up for a long-awaited assault to dislodge hundreds of Islamic State (IS)…
Syrian army advance helps secure Aleppo road
The Syrian army said on Saturday it had seized mountainous territory from Islamic State to the east of the road…
Syria’s army says senior Islamic State militant killed
The Syrian army said on Wednesday it had killed Islamic State's military commander in Syria during operations in…
US-backed force seizes key Syria city, dam from IS group
A US-backed alliance on Wednesday captured Syria's Tabqa and its nearby dam from the Islamic State (IS) militant…
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…
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…
Philippine military says high-ranking Abu Sayyaf member killed
Philippine government troops have killed a senior member of the Abu Sayyaf rebel group instrumental in a spree…
Church bombings aim at Egypt’s unity: Coptic Pope
The two church bombings that killed dozens in Egypt this month targeted unity among Muslims and Christians in the…
Hundreds join Mosul exodus as Iraqi forces retake two more western districts
Pushing carts loaded with bags, babies and the elderly, hundreds of people fled Mosul on Saturday after Iraqi…
Le Pen calls for government to immediately reinstate French borders after Paris attack
French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has urged the government to immediately restore state borders…
Egypt police kill man suspected of involvement in attack on Sinai’s St Catherine
A man suspected of involvement in a deadly attack on Tuesday night on a security checkpoint near South Sinai’s St…
U.S. Defence Secretary Mattis to talk IS, Syria in Middle East
On his first trip as U.S defence secretary to parts of the Middle East and Africa, Jim Mattis will focus on the…
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,…
North Korea ready for nuclear attack amid show of force
North Korea has warned the US not to take provocative action in the region, saying it is ready to hit back with…
US-backed forces launch new attacks on IS in Syria: statement
U.S.-backed forces fighting Islamic State (IS) in Syria launched a new phase of their offensive on Thursday, a…
Chemical weapons experts in Turkey to investigate alleged Syrian sarin attack
A team of experts from the global chemical weapons watchdog has been sent to Turkey to collect samples as part of…
Churches in Egypt’s Minya will not celebrate Easter
Egyptian churches, in the southern city of Minya, say they will not hold Easter celebrations next Saturday in…
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…
18 dead, 40 injured in explosion at Saint Mark’s Coptic Cathedral in Alexandria
The death toll rose to 18 and the number of injured to 40 in an explosion at Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral…
Four dead, man arrested in Sweden truck attack
Four people were killed and 15 injured when a stolen truck ploughed into a crowd of people outside a busy…
Blaming Assad, Trump says Syria attack ‘cannot be tolerated’
The United States and Russia traded conflicting assertions Wednesday about who launched a chemical weapons attack…
Saudi Arabia increases fighter pilots’ pay by 60%
The Saudi Cabinet announced a pay increase of up to 60 percent for air force pilots on Monday, state news agency…
EU sees no future for Assad in Syria: Foreign ministers
President Bashar al-Assad has no future in post-conflict Syria but his fate is ultimately up to the Syrian people,…
U.S.-backed forces repel IS attack near Syrian dam
U.S. backed Syrian forces repelled a major counter-attack by Islamic State (IS) militants holding out at the…
Israeli tourists ignore warning against travel to Sinai
Israeli tourists in Sinai ignored their government's warning against traveling to the Egyptian peninsula and…
Turkey ends ‘Shield’ military operation in Syria: PM
Turkey has ended the Euphrates Shield military operation it launched in Syria last August, Prime Minister Binali…
Iraqi forces pause Mosul push over concern for civilian casualties
Iraqi government forces paused in their push to recapture western Mosul from Islamic State (IS) militants on…
Militants kill one police officer in North Sinai
A police officer and a conscript were killed on Thursday in North Sinai in a shootout with militants, Egypt's…
Six soldiers killed in Chechnya base attack, Russia says
Russia said on Friday that six of its soldiers had been killed after successfully repelling an assault on a…
Russia underplayed losses in recapture of Syria’s Palmyra
Russia's force in Syria has suffered losses since late January more than three times higher than the official toll,…
Iraqi forces fight to take Mosul, car bomb in Baghdad kills 23 people
Islamic State (IS) militants captured an Iraqi police colonel and eight other officers on Monday after they ran out…
Iraq forces say near Mosul mosque where IS declared ‘caliphate’
Elite Iraqi forces said they were battling house by house in the Old City of Mosul on Saturday, inching towards the…
US claims Syria’s air strike, denies targeting mosque where 46 killed
The US said it carried out an air strike in Syria against an Al-Qaeda meeting but denied deliberately targeting a…
Syrian government urges UN chief to avert ‘looming dam catastrophe’
Syria's government urged U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to demand that a U.S.-led military campaign…