Iraqi special forces have moved more than 1,000 people from villages near the front lines of the battle to retake the Islamic State-held city of Mosul and surrounding areas, where the U.N. says militants have committed a number of atrocities in recent days, officials said Wednesday....

More than 3,300 fleeing Iraqis sought help from the government on day nine of its offensive to retake Mosul, the most for a single day so far, a minister said Wednesday. The number is far short of the hundreds of thousands that aid agencies have been bracing for but the offensive is still in...

(The Daily Star)- Forces allied to President Bashar Assad in Syria warned Turkey Wednesday against any advance towards their positions to the north and east of Aleppo, saying any such move would be met "decisively and with force". The field commander of the forces allied to Damascus made the...

Bashar al-Assad’s forces are helping Daesh and PKK/PYD in opposing the Free Syrian Army (FSA), a commander said Tuesday. Abu Ramadan said Daesh and the PKK/PYD were acting together along the Marea-Jarabulus line in northern Aleppo province. “Daesh came into action four years ago when...