Thousands of Iraqi children are heading back to school in east Mosul after weeks of fighting and more than two years of extremist rule, the U.N. children's fund UNICEF said Tuesday. Iraqi forces launched a massive operation to recapture Mosul from ISIS 100 days ago and have ousted the...

Claims that Turkey will hand over the Syrian town of al-Bab to President Bashar Assad's forces after driving out ISIS are not true, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus told the state-run Anadolu agency Tuesday. Syrian rebels, backed by Turkish special forces, tanks and warplanes,...

Thirteen Daesh terrorists were "neutralized" in northern Syria over the last 24 hours as part of Operation Euphrates Shield, the Turkish military said Tuesday. Turkish authorities use the word "neutralized" in their statements to imply the terrorists in question were either killed, captured...

Iraqi forces have started preparing an offensive to capture the western side of Mosul from ISIS, campaign commander Lieutenant General Abdul Ameer Rasheed Yarallah said. Popular Mobilization "is preparing an operation in the next two, three days, to back up the operation to retake the right...