The second-in-command of the Islamic State militant group was killed during a U.S. air strike in Iraq on Tuesday, the White House said on Friday, dealing a blow to the group that has sought to form a caliphate across the Muslim world. "Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, also known as Hajji...

Fragments from mortars fired by Islamic State militants at Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq earlier this month tested positive in a U.S. military field test for the chemical weapons agent sulfur mustard, a U.S. general said on Friday. Marine Corps Brigadier General Kevin...

Dozens of people, many of them civilians, were killed in air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition on the southwestern Yemeni city of Taiz, an aid organization and Houthi media said on Friday. Houses were reduced to rubble and many victims were unable to reach hospitals, Medicins Sans...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) The siege imposed by Syrian regime on the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp south of Damascus is 800-day-old now, with180 death cases and 400 days without water and 850 days without electricity, a monitoring group tracks the breaches committed against Palestinians in...