Islamic State fighters abducted 295 former Iraqi Security Forces members near the militant stronghold of Mosul and also forced 1,500 families to retreat with them from Hammam al Alil town, the United Nations human rights organization said on Tuesday. The abductions took place last week as...

(The Daily Star)- Yemeni troops backed by a Saudi-led coalition airstrike killed six suspected Al-Qaeda fighters outside the southeastern port city of Mukalla Tuesday, a security official said. Mukalla was the most populous Yemeni city under Al-Qaeda control until government troops and...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu accused Berlin on Tuesday of allowing the Kurdish militant PKK and far-leftist DHKP-C, both of which have carried out armed attacks in Turkey, to operate on German soil with impunity. "The DHKP-C and PKK are carrying out activities in Germany, but...

(Daily Star)- Turkey wants to ensure that the "wrong groups" do not take part in the operation to push Islamic State from the Syrian city of Raqqa and the offensive is weeks away from starting, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday. Cavusoglu told a news conference that the...