MOGADISHU (Reuters) - More than 200 people were killed in near simultaneous bombings in the Somali capital and more than 250 people were injured, officials said on Sunday, marking the most deadly such attack by Somalia’s al Shabaab insurgency. “We have confirmed 200 civilians died...

U.S.-backed militias said they had launched their final assault on Syria’s Raqqa on Sunday after a convoy of Islamic State fighters left the city, leaving only a hardcore of jihadists to mount a last stand. “The battle will continue until the whole city is clean,” said a statement...

Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani has arrived in Iraq's Kurdistan region for talks about the escalating crisis between the Kurdish authorities and the Iraqi government following the Kurdish independence referendum, a Kurdish official said Sunday. Soleimani is the commander of foreign...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Kurdish militias seized 8 villages from the Islamic State near Markada town, the last ISIS stronghold in Hasaka province, local activists said on Sunday. Abdulmalek al-Ali said the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) had captured the town of al-Hasain in the...