A man armed with a hammer shouted "this is for Syria" before attacking police officers on Tuesday outside France's Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, the interior minister said. The assailant wounded one officer before he was shot and wounded by other officers. The Paris prosecutor's office...

Syria's state news agency and an opposition monitoring group say airstrikes on the northern city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of ISIS, have killed at least 12 people. State news agency SANA reported on Tuesday that the airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition killed 12, including women and...

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Tuesday it had begun a battle to capture Raqqa, ISIS' de facto capital in Syria, launching attacks from the east, west and north of the city. In a phone interview with Reuters from Syria, SDF spokesman Talal Silo said the operation...

 As U.S.-backed forces prepare a final assault on Daesh’s (ISIS) Syrian bastion Raqqa, displaced civilians are dreaming of spending the end of Ramadan feast back home. The Kurdish-Arab Syrian Democratic Forces militia is expected to begin its assault on the northern Syrian city as early...