A few hundred Iraqi Christians flocked Saturday to Bartella, a northern town recently retaken from ISIS, to celebrate Christmas for the first time since 2013. Bartella, once home to thousands of Assyrian Christians, emptied in August 2014 when it fell to ISIS' blitz across large parts of...

Two Saudis were injured Friday by a military projectile fired from war-ravaged Yemen into southern Saudi Arabia, according to the kingdom’s civil defense agency.  Agency spokesman Yehia al-Kahtani said a shell struck a house in Jizan city near border with Yemen, injuring a man and his...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that Turkey's operation to capture the northern Syrian town of al-Bab was almost complete. Speaking at the opening ceremony of a natural gas terminal in the coastal town of Izmir, Erdogan said the Free Syrian Army, with the backing of Turkish...

Turkish authorities detained 31 people on Friday suspected of links to ISIS, broadcaster NTV said, as clashes between Turkish soldiers and the militant group intensified in northern Syria. Turkey issued arrest warrants for 41 people in Istanbul for "being members of an armed terrorist...