Driving towards the frontline of what remains of the Islamic State group's self-declared "caliphate" in eastern Syria, US-backed fighters pass huge craters from air strikes and buildings reduced to rubble. Backed by air strikes of the US-led coalition, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic...

More than 50 mass graves have been identified in western Democratic Republic of Congo after a spate of killings in the region, a UN rights group has said. "There are more than 50 mass graves, as well as common and individual graves that we have identified" in Yumbi in western Mai-Ndombe...

As US-backed forces advanced, 22-year-old Dima Qatran buried one of her twin babies, then picked up the other and fled the Islamic State group's crumbling pocket in eastern Syria. Clutching her remaining 11-month-old daughter, she joined hundreds escaping the last shreds of the extremist...

Coalition missile strikes have killed 42 people including 13 civilians in what remains of the the last holdout of Daesh (ISIS) in eastern Syria, an activist group said. The Syrian Democratic Forces, backed by a U.S.-led coalition, are battling to expel the last militants from hamlets in...