(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Local activists based in Tal-Tamer town in the western countryside of Hasaka city said Asayish, an armed group affiliated to the Democratic Union Party (PYD), had been looting  houses of the Arab villages in in the Kurdish predominantly region northeast Syria....

A U.S.-led coalition attacked Islamic State militants on Sunday with 18 air strikes in Iraq and four in Syria, the military said in a statement released on Monday. The Iraq attacks were concentrated near Baiji and near Kisik, the Combined Joint Task Force said in the statement. Four air...

President Francois Hollande said on Monday French airstrikes against ISIS militants in Syria would be necessary. "We are part of the coalition in Iraq (against ISIS)," Hollande said in a news conference with his Nigerian counterpart Muhammadu Buhari. "We started reconnaissance flights (in...

Russia has positioned about a half dozen tanks at an airfield at the center of a military buildup in Syria, two U.S. officials said on Monday, adding that the intentions of Moscow's latest deployment of heavy military equipment were unclear. Moscow has come under increased...