A group of Kurdish and Arab militias supported by the United States captured a district of the town of Tabqa from ISIS on Monday, they said in a statement, a step towards the capture of Syria's largest dam. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has been fighting ISIS in Tabqa for weeks,...

Up to 5,000 ethnic Uighurs from China's violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang are fighting in various militant groups in Syria, the Syrian ambassador to China said on Monday, adding that Beijing should be extremely concerned about it. China is worried that Uighurs, a mostly Muslim...

The Afghan government says the country's air force has pounded ISIS targets in an eastern province where a U.S. military raid last month killed the militant group's top commander. The Interior Ministry said Monday that the airstrikes killed 34 ISIS fighters over the past 24 hours and...

(Zaman alWasl)- 15 wounded fighters of the hardline Islamist group formerly known as Nusra Front from Yarmouk Camp, in the southern suburbs of Damascus, left early Monday to rebel-held Idlib province, due to an agreement reached with Iran allowed wounded fighers of the Shiite villges to leave...