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Massive funeral for Turkish strike victims in Syria

Thousands of people on Monday attended the funeral ceremony of 11 people killed by a Turkish airstrike in Syria. Family members, relatives, and a large number of people carried the coffins of those who died from a hospital to a funeral square, and finally to a cemetery. Syrian Democratic...

Lawyer: Ex-Islamic State bride was child trafficking victim

LONDON (AP) — Lawyers for a British woman whose U.K. citizenship was removed after she travelled to Syria to join the so-called Islamic State group argued Monday that she should have been treated as a child trafficking victim. Shamima Begum, now 23, was 15 when she and two other...

Turkey claimed to hit northern Syria and Iraq

Turkey launched airstrikes over several towns in northern Syria on Saturday, US-backed Kurdish-led forces reported. Northern Iraq was also allegedly targeted. The airstrikes occurred a week after a bomb rocked a bustling avenue in the heart of Istanbul, killing six people and wounding...

Officials: IS militants kill 4 Iraqi soldiers in northwest

BAGHDAD (AP) — Islamic State group militants attacked an Iraqi army position in the northwestern governorate of Kirkuk early Saturday killing four soldiers, security sources and a local government official said. IS fighters in the district of Dibis took the soldiers' weapons and...