ISIS Sunday pulled its fighters out of Al-Rutbah, a desert town in the western Iraqi province of Anbar, an army general and the mayor said. "Daesh (ISIS) has completely pulled out of [Al-Rutbah] and gone towards Al-Qaim," a major general told AFP, referring to a extremist bastion on the...

The al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front seized bases and weapons from a Western-backed rebel group in overnight fighting in northwestern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday. Rami Abdulrahman, director of the Observatory, said the Nusra Front had also detained...

The Syria-based terrorist organization PYD should never be considered as a reliable partner for defeating Daesh, Turkish foreign minister said at the fifth meeting of the “Turkish-British Tatlidil Forum” in London Saturday. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu differed from the views...

Rebels shoot down regime warplane in Hama province: state TV