Syria's President Bashar al-Assad told a Swiss TV station that government forces had to rid the city of Aleppo of rebel "terrorists" under its constitutional mandate to protect the civilian population. "That's our mission, according to the constitution, according to the law, that we have to...

(The Daily Star)- Iraqi forces prepared to retake the country's largest Christian town from ISIS Wednesday, a key milestone in their progress towards the extremists' main hub of Mosul. News of the move to recapture Qaraqosh sparked jubilation among Christians who had fled the town, with...

Daesh has been ousted from five villages in northern Syria as part of Turkey’s Operation Euphrates Shield, the Turkish military said in a statement Wednesday. According to Turkish Armed Forces, the terrorist group lost the villages of Mazraat al-Uyun, Beyt Misto, Tel Malid, Jisr al-Samukah...

Anti-terrorist police arrested 20 Daesh suspects in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir on Wednesday, a police official said. The suspects were rounded up in raids launched around 8 a.m. local time (0500GMT) at four locations across the province and documents were seized, the official...