Iraqi forces have found another suspected mass grave containing the remains of ISIS victims in territory recaptured from the extremists near Mosul, AFP journalists reported Friday. An AFP team visited the isolated site that was recaptured recently by elite interior ministry forces down a...

A US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance on Friday fought fiercely to drive ISIS from a hilltop north of the extremists' de facto Syrian capital of Raqqa. The fighting took place as a senior official with the Syrian Democratic Forces told AFP that US-led coalition forces had not only provided...

Iraqi officers say troops are advancing cautiously into eastern districts of Mosul where they face stiff resistance from ISIS militants. Airstrikes, automatic fire and artillery were heard from dawn and one soldier was reported killed in clashes. Civilians, some of them wounded, could be...

Turkey reopened an important border gate with Syria on Thursday, two days after an outbreak of fighting across the frontier. The Oncupinar crossing point in the southeastern province of Kilis is open again, the local provincial governor told Anadolu Agency. On Nov. 14 Turkey temporarily...