Nine Daesh militants were killed and four others injured in a U.S.-led coalition airstrike late Monday in northern Mosul, according to an Iraqi police officer. Five airstrikes targeted a Daesh military post, a training site and an ambulance carrying Daesh militants in northern Mosul, colonel...

Iran said Tuesday it had sent 11 metric tons of heavy water to Oman as part of its obligations under last year's nuclear deal with world powers. Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, said the heavy water has been sold to an unnamed third country. Heavy water is not...

Iraqi troops moved Tuesday to retake another neighborhood in the eastern sector of the northern city of Mosul but were facing stiff resistance from ISIS militants, according to a top Iraqi commander. Brig. Gen. Haider Fadel of the special forces told The Associated Press that ISIS fighters...

(The Daily Star)- Syrian rebels backed by Turkey who are trying to drive ISIS from the city of al Bab said on Monday they clashed with U.S.-backed Kurdish forces as both groups seek to dislodge the militants to expand their own territory. The rebels said the fighting with the Syria...