Iraqi military and hospital officials say mortar rounds fired by ISIS militants have killed 16 civilians in neighborhoods already retaken by troops. They said the bodies of the 16, killed overnight and early Saturday, have been brought to military hospitals in eastern Mosul. The...

Turkish warplanes destroyed 12 ISIS targets while one Turkish soldier was killed in a clash with militants during an offensive in northern Syria, Turkey's military said Saturday. Turkey and Syrian rebels are carrying out an operation to push the extremists from the border after an airstrike...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebel factions thwarted Saturday regime attack on Hanano district in the besieged Eastern Aleppo, killing 15 soldiers, local reporter said. On Friday, regime forces pressed slow advances inside the district after more than 200 raids where toxic gas was used against...

(The Guardian)- Britain’s home secretary is being urged by MPs to allow refugees from the Yazidi community, a minority Iraqi group persecuted by Islamic State, to enter the UK under the same rules that allow entrance to vulnerable Syrian refugees. In a letter to Amber Rudd (pdf), a...