US-backed forces Tuesday said they were trying to evacuate civilians from the Islamic State group's last dreg of territory in Syria and warned jihadists to surrender or face death. Jihadists defending the last scrap of their "caliphate" in eastern Syria will be "killed in battle" if they...

U.S.-backed fighters appeared closer to capturing Islamic State’s last pocket in eastern Syria on Tuesday, a victory that would bring the jihadists’ self-proclaimed caliphate to a bloody end. Dozens of trucks were visible moving along a road towards Baghouz, the village on the banks of...

A senior adviser to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday flatly rejected the idea of giving Syrian Kurds a measure of autonomy, saying such a move would open the door to the partition of the country. The Kurdish-led authority that runs much of north and east Syria has presented a road...

At a clinic in eastern Syria, the Islamic State group have fled leaving a floor strewn with medical supplies -- but also explosives and a foreign passport. US-backed fighters took the three-storey building in the village of Baghouz in recent days, and now use its roof to survey the...