ISIS has continued losing control over territory across Iraq and Syria, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday, including almost half of what it had once held in Iraq. The Defense Department had previously estimated that ISIS fighters had lost control of about 40 percent of the territory they...

Turkish authorities on Monday detained seven suspected ISIS members, including figures described as a senior leader and an "executioner", the state-run Anatolia news agency said. The seven suspects were detained during raids on addresses in the eastern region of Elazig. Large numbers of...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Cairo Wednesday for talks with President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, amid a stark crackdown on political freedoms in Egypt. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Kerry would fly to Cairo after talks on the Syrian crisis in Vienna and before heading...

Iraqi security forces and allied fighters launched an operation on Monday to retake the town of Rutba from ISIS, the military said. Special forces, soldiers, police, border guards and pro-government paramilitaries are involved in the operation to retake the Anbar province town, Iraq's Joint...