ARBIL, Iraq, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Kurdish regional forces retook the northern Iraqi town of Zumar and several nearby villages from Islamic State insurgents on Saturday, security sources said. A Kurdish intelligence officer in Zumar said peshmerga forces had...

By Zaman Staff; Translation by Yusra Ahmed ANKARA-(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkey solely to create a “safe zone” to the North of Syria, to face the expected new influx of Syrian refugees, as a result of the ongoing fighting with regime and ISIS, and...

Ten children and five women have been killed in Syrian government air strikes in the northern province of Aleppo, a monitoring group said Friday. The children, aged from four to 10, and women were killed Thursday "in barrel bomb strikes by regime helicopters on a home and public...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sixty-five percent of Americans now say the threat from the Islamic State group is very or even extremely important, and nearly half think the U.S. military response in Iraq and Syria has not gone far enough, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll. Most want...