The bodies of dozens of civilians killed in the past two days while fleeing an ISIS-held neighborhood in Mosul lay on Saturday in a street close to the frontline with Iraqi armed forces, a Reuters TV crew reported. The dead included men, women and children. Bags in which they had carried...

Jordanian border guards on Saturday foiled an attack on the frontier with Syria and killed gunmen riding motorcycles who tried to overrun their position, the army said. It the armed men on motorcycles who belonged to "terrorist groups and coming from Syria" tried to attack a frontline...

( Al-Monitor )- Prior to the May 16 meeting between US President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Washington, Turkey had sought for a year to pressure Washington to make a final decision on whether it would cooperate with Turkey in northern Syria or whether it would opt...

Iraqi forces have recaptured around half of two neighborhoods in west Mosul that are among the targets of a broad offensive against militants launched last week, officers said on Friday. Iraqi security forces are more than seven months into a massive operation to retake Mosul from ISIS,...