Military forces loyal to Libya's eastern government said on Sunday they had pushed back Islamist fighters in several areas of Benghazi, seizing the strategic port of Marisa. The Libyan National Army said it had also taken control of the town of Ajdabiya, about 150 km (90 miles)...

Separate bomb attacks claimed by the Islamic State group in Syria on Sunday killed at least 129 people as Washington pursued efforts for a ceasefire. As US Secretary of State John Kerry said a provisional deal had been reached on the terms of a truce, violence intensified...

Clashes between Iraqi tribesmen and the ISIS group in Fallujah have halted after the extremists detained dozens of residents of the city west of Baghdad, officials said Sunday. The fighting between the Sunni Arab tribesmen and ISIS in Fallujah, one of two cities it still holds in Iraq,...

At least 50 ISIS group fighters have been killed in the last 24 hours in an advance by Syrian government forces east of Aleppo city, an activist said Sunday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the fighters were killed in clashes as well as strikes by Russian forces that...