At least 25 Daesh militants and 15 Iraqi security personnel were killed Sunday in separate incidents across Iraq’s western Anbar province, according to Iraqi army and police sources. Lieutenant-Colonel Ahmed al-Obaidi of the Iraqi army told Anadolu Agency that four Daesh militants –...

Syria's army said on Sunday it had stepped up air strikes and retaken villages in a new offensive on Islamist insurgents in areas close to President Bashar al Assad's ancestral homeland in the coastal province of Latakia. Aerial bombardment had intensified over the past 48 hours...

Syrian regime forces backed by Kurdish Democratic Union militia have tightened the siege on ISIS militants in the southern neighborhoods of Hasaka city northeast Syria, activists told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday. Activist  Mohamed al-Khalaf, based in Hasaka, said PYD fighters were...

Prime Minister David Cameron wants Britain to do more to help the United States destroy Islamic State in Syria, he said in an interview broadcast on Sunday. Britain conducts regular strikes against IS militants in Iraq but has so far limited its Syrian involvement to flying surveillance...