he rattle of guns, bomb blasts and black smoke -- a deluge of fire is being unleashed on the Islamic State's last Syrian stronghold by Kurdish-led and international forces. "Watch out, it's coming!" Kurdish commander Hagit Qamishlo shouts to AFP journalists, from the terrace of a house that...

The U.S.-backed Syrian force closing in on Daesh's (ISIS) last territorial bastion near the Iraqi border expects a "decisive battle" Sunday after advancing slowly, a spokesman said overnight. Capturing Baghouz, an eastern Syrian village on the bank of the Euphrates River, would cap four...

Fighters with the U.S.-backed force battling Daesh (ISIS) in eastern Syria advanced on two fronts Saturday as the extremists used snipers and booby traps to slow the push on the last area they control, a spokesperson for the group said. Mustafa Bali of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic...

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia said on Thursday it had freed 24 of its fighters from Islamic State militants in the jihadists’ last enclave near the Iraqi border. The SDF provided no details about how its fighters were recovered, and it was not immediately clear if...