Two children, aged 10 and 12, were killed in a suspected U.S. airstrike targeting al-Qaeda in central Yemen, a provincial official said Tuesday. The children had been tending a herd of goats on a mountain outside the village of Yakla, in Baida province, when the strike hit Sunday, the...

 More than 2,000 fighters sent from Iran have been killed in Iraq and Syria, the head of Iran's veterans' affairs office said Tuesday. "Some 2,100 martyrs have been martyred so far in Iraq or other places defending the holy mausoleums," Mohammad Ali Shahidi told the state-run IRNA news...

Iraqi forces retook the provincial government headquarters and a second bridgehead on the River Tigris in west Mosul on Tuesday, the third day of a new drive against the Islamic State group. The operation to retake west Mosul -- IS's largest remaining urban stronghold -- was launched on...

(Middle East Eye)- Illuminated by thin beams of light from soldiers' head torches and mobile phones, the climbing apparatus throws eerie shadows across the walls of the disused railway tunnel. For almost three years, the high-roofed tunnel served as the Islamic State's training camp for its...