U.S.-led forces conducted 15 airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq on Monday, eight of them near the contested Sinjar area, and two airstrikes in Syria, the U.S. military said. The Sinjar strikes destroyed 26 militant fighting positions, five vehicles, 10 assembly areas and three command and...

Over half a million refugees and migrants have arrived by sea in Greece this year and the rate of arrivals is rising with over 8,000 coming on Monday alone, in a rush to beat the onset of freezing winter, the United Nations said on Tuesday. U.N. refugee agency spokeswoman...

(Writing by Faris AL Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Mahmood al-Naser, former detainee in the Syrian regime’s prisons, cannot forget his painful and traumatising experience, not only the pain of torturing, but the suffering of other detainees who were like alive bodies waiting to die....

Rebels battling the Syrian army and its allies near Aleppo said on Monday they had received new supplies of U.S.-made anti-tank missiles from states opposed to President Bashar al-Assad since the start of a major government offensive last week. The rebels from three groups...