Turkey's military said on Friday it was close to taking the northern Syrian city of al-Bab from Islamic State, a victory that would deepen Turkish influence in an area where it has created a de facto buffer zone. Al-Bab, an Islamic State stronghold 30 km (20 miles) from the border, has been...

The death toll from a car bomb attack in a southern Baghdad neighborhood has reached 59 with 66 others injured, a police officer and medical sources said Friday. Authorities initially said the Thursday attack at an auto dealership in the al-Bayaa neighborhood killed at least 55 and wounded...

Nine civilians were killed in overnight Turkish bombardment of a extremist-held town in northern Syria, activists said Friday, but Ankara said the shelling killed 13 "terrorists". Three women were among those killed in the artillery fire on Al-Bab, which Turkish-backed Syrian rebels have...

Human Rights Watch Thursday accused Iranian-trained Iraqi paramilitary units battling ISIS of demolishing hundreds of Sunni Arab houses near the city of Mosul, but a spokesman for the units blamed the militants for the damage. The New York-based rights group said the mainly Shi'ite Muslim...