A ceasefire took effect on Sunday in an Islamic State pocket straddling the Syria-Lebanon border, where the jihadists have been fighting the Lebanese army on one front and Hezbollah with the regime army on the other. The Lebanese army announced that a ceasefire in its own offensive took...

Venezuela kicked off two days of military drills on Saturday in response to US President Donald Trump's threat of military action and newly announced sanctions on the crisis-stricken nation. War planes, tanks and 200,000 troops of the National Bolivarian Armed Forces (FANB) deployed along...

Roughly 500 families have fled Iraq’s Daesh-held Tal Afar district to next-door Syria in recent days amid an ongoing Iraqi army campaign to capture the district, a local military official said Friday. “Since the army launched its campaign to liberate Tal Afar, around 500 families have...

Neymar's acrimonious split from Barcelona escalated on Thursday as the Paris St Germain forward announced plans to sue the Liga club, two days after Barca revealed they were suing the Brazilian over breach of contract. Reports in the Spanish media said that Neymar had filed a lawsuit via...