A senior Syrian rebel official denied a report on Friday that a ceasefire had been reached in the Wadi Barada area near Damascus where government forces and their allies are fighting rebels. Munir Sayal, head of the political wing of the Ahrar al-Sham rebel group, told Reuters the report...

The U.S.-based coalition has killed a senior ISIS facilitator in an airstrike in the extremists' self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa, the U.S. military command in the region said Friday. CENTCOM identified the target as Mahmud al-Isawi, an ISIS operative who managed instructions and...

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen says a French investigation into accusations that members of her National Front party tricked the European Union out of hundreds of thousands of euros is a "political act" by a system she wants to break. Le Pen, a leading presidential candidate, also said...

The Iraqi army and pro-government tribal fighters captured several villages on Friday -- without facing resistance -- from the Daesh terrorist group in the western Anbar province, according to a military official. Army Major-General Numan Abdel-Zawbaei told Anadolu Agency that Iraqi forces...