North Korea has “apparently almost completed” physical restoration of a rocket launch site, Seoul claimed on Wednesday. According to a report in Korean news agency Yonhap, South Korea's Defense Ministry in a report said that it was “unclear whether the Dongchang-ri test site is...

Islamic State militants mounted two counterattacks on Wednesday against U.S.-backed Syrian forces that are on the brink of capturing the jihadists’ final enclave in eastern Syria, but made no progress and were stopped, the U.S.-backed Syrian force said. The second attack, launched in the...

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces militia said it thwarted an attempted Islamic State group suicide bomb attack early on Wednesday during a last-stand battle for the jihadist group’s final enclave. The SDF has said the battle for Baghouz, a collection of hamlets and farmland near...

Around 3,000 Islamic State members have surrendered from the group's last holdout in Syria, Kurdish-led forces said Tuesday, as air raids and shelling resumed after a brief lull. A ragged tent encampment in the eastern Syrian village of Baghouz is all that remains of a once-sprawling IS...