Several villages held by ISIS have been captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a coalition of militias backed by the United States that includes a strong Kurdish contingent, an organization that monitors the war said on Monday. The advance is part of a military campaign backed by an...

Jordanian police said Monday they found suicide belts and other explosives in the hideout of suspected ISIS extremists behind an attack that killed 10 people, including a Canadian tourist. Another 34 people were wounded in Sunday's shooting spree, including a second Canadian. Four gunmen...

Iran has finalized an agreement with Airbus to acquire 100 jetliners, the first of which is tentatively expected to be delivered in mid-January, a senior official said on Monday. The deal, split roughly equally between narrow-body and wide-body aircraft, will be signed in coming days,...

One Turkish soldier was killed in a car bomb attack in the northern Syrian town of al-Bab while 11 ISIS militants were killed in clashes on Sunday, the Turkish military said in a statement on Monday. It said Turkish warplanes on Sunday destroyed 52 ISIS targets in the area of al-Bab, which...