Kurdish Peshmerga forces on Monday repelled a Daesh attack near Sinjar town in northern Iraq, according to a local commander.  Daesh militants mounted a surprise attack at dawn on Peshmerga forces stationed west of Sinjar using car-bombs, Lukman Ibrahim, a Peshmerga commander in Sinjar,...

(The Daily Star)- Turkey's military struck dozens of ISIS and Kurdish YPG militia targets in Syria over the last 24 hours, depriving both groups of the ability to move around, the army said Monday, as its operation there entered a third month. Backed by Turkish tanks, special forces and...

(The Daily Star)- Vietnamese police hunted Monday for hundreds of drug addicts who escaped from a compulsory rehabilitation center, with some using sticks and fire extinguishers to break out. The communist government decrees up to two years of forced rehabilitation at government centers to...

Iraq's joint operations command Monday denied Turkey was participating in military operations to retake the northern city of Mosul from ISIS. "The spokesman of the Joint Operations Command denies Turkish participation of any kind in operations for the liberation of Nineveh," a statement...