The U.S.-led anti-Daesh coalition said Saturday it struck more than 90 boats and three barges trying to ferry the terror group's members attempting to flee parts of Iraq. Daesh's militants were seeking to cross the Tigris River to west Mosul as Iraqi security forces secured the city's...

Iraqi forces used to facing deserted, explosives-rigged streets and booby-trapped buildings are discovering fewer bombs planted by jihadists in Mosul than in earlier battles against them. The Islamic State group has no qualms about killing civilians, but the presence of a large number of...

A car bomb blast killed at least four civilians at a camp for displaced Syrians by the border with Jordan Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights activists said. "A car bomb exploded on the outskirts of the Rukban camp on the Jordanian border, killing four displaced people and...

Turkey can no longer insist on a resolution of the conflict in Syria without the involvement of President Bashar Assad, as the situation on the ground has changed dramatically, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek said Friday. "As far as our position on Assad is concerned, we...