Iraqi soldiers snap victorious "selfies" and pose with a captured Islamic State group flag at the Mosul mosque where militant chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi once spoke. "Where is Baghdadi?" they say, taunting the absent militant leader at the site of his triumphal 2014 appearance, the only time...

U.S.-backed Iraqi forces pressed Islamic State fighters holding out in Mosul's Old City on Friday, while in Syria the militant group launched a counter-attack against an alliance of militias trying to oust it from its de facto capital of Raqqa. In Iraq, dozens of civilians poured out of...

( Expression )- MOSUL. Falah Aziz says he's cut the head off 50 living people and killed 130 people in total. He calls himself the beheader. "Just that feeling, I can't explain how at ease I am with it," is his response when asked what it feels like to cut someone's head off." He is Iraqi and...

Israel's military says aircraft struck a Syrian military post that earlier fired a mortar into the Israeli-controlled side of the Golan Heights. It said the Syrian shell caused no injuries Friday, the latest in several such incidents of this week. The fire was spillover from battles in the...