This farming village east of Mosul was turned into a bunker during more than two years of Islamic State rule: A network of tunnels and cramped living quarters betrays an extremist group increasingly forced to operate underground by a punishing air campaign and mounting territorial losses....

(the guardian)- More than a third of almost 300 female students abducted by Islamic militants from a school in Nigeria two-and-a-half years ago appear unwilling to leave their captors, a community leader has said. Nigeria’s government is negotiating the release of 83 of about 190 girls...

Turkish jets will continue to take part in the air operation backing Iraqi forces and Kurdish Peshmerga to retake Iraq's second city of Mosul from jihadists after the defence minister said late Tuesday Ankara had agreed a deal with its coalition partners. "We have agreed with coalition...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's fighter jets using vacuum missiles hit a hospital in northern Idlib province, causing huge destruction in the only medical center in Serja town, local activists said Tuesday. 5 medics have been wounded in the attack on al-Iman hospital east of Jabal al-Zawiya area,...