Dozens of Syrian government troops and Islamic State fighters have been killed in fighting around a government-held air base in eastern Syria in a region that is a stronghold for the jihadists, Reuters said on Thursday, Islamic State used at least two car bombs in its latest...

A Turkish soldier was shot dead at the border with Syria in southern Turkey by an unidentified assailant who opened fire from Syrian territory, the Dogan news agency reported on Thursday. The shooting occurred in the Reyhanli district of Turkey's Hatay province. Dogan gave no...

ISIS claims to be holding a Norwegian man and a Chinese consultant hostage and is demanding ransom for their release. The extremist group posted pictures of the two men wearing yellow prison outfits in the latest issue of its online magazine Dabiq, which was released Wednesday. It identifies...

For the Muslim community in Reyaad Khan's neighborhood of Cardiff in Wales, this week's news he had been killed by Britain in a drone strike in Syria was just the latest in a series of shocks about radicals in their midst. Three years ago, two brothers from the same area, Riverside, were...