Roman Catholic officials said Tuesday that a Franciscan priest who had been abducted by militants in Syria has been freed. The custodian of the Catholic Church's properties in the Holy Land said the priest, Rev. Dhiya Azziz, was released late Monday. The office of the custodian, Rev....

  Islamic State's territory shrank by 40 percent from its maximum expansion in Iraq, and by 20 percent in Syria in 2015, as international forces pushed it out of several cities, the U.S.-led coalition fighting it said on Tuesday. There was no immediate comment from the...

The U.S.-led coalition on Monday staged 20 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria in its latest daily attacks on the militant group, the coalition leading the operations said. In a statement released on Tuesday, the Combined Joint Task Force said 19 strikes near six...

Turkey's gendarmerie said it found the bodies of 21 migrants, three of them children, at two separate locations on the Aegean coast on Tuesday after their boat apparently capsized as they tried to reach the Greek island of Lesbos. Eleven of the bodies were discovered on the shoreline in the...