Syria's Islamist rebels on Friday have recaptured territory from Islamic State  in northern province of Aleppo near an area where Turkey and the United States are planning to open a new front against the group, rebel sources said. On Thursday the hardline Sunni group was able to seize five...

Success of a new international inquiry aimed at assigning blame for chemical weapons attacks during Syria's four-year-old civil war will require full cooperation of all warring parties, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday. The remarks were included in a letter to...

A coalition led by the United States pummeled Islamic State targets in Iraq on Wednesday with 21 air strikes concentrated near the cities of Baji and Tuz, according to a statement released on Thursday. Five strikes near Baiji denied the militant group "an avenue of approach" and...

Islamic State has seized new territory from Syrian rebels in northern Syria, advancing in an area where Turkey and the United States are planning to open a new front against the group. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based group tracking the war, said it had seized five...