A spokesman for the Iraqi government says U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter has been given "incorrect information" following his criticism of its security forces over the fall of Ramadi to ISIS. Saad al-Hadithi said Monday that the Iraqi government was surprised by Carter saying Iraqi forces...

State-run media mourned Sunday senior commander in Syria regime army, saying he was killed "during his national duty," in Aleppo. Activists say the deputy chairman of the security committee in Aleppo province, Major General Younes Ali Ibrahim, died of his wounds. Early Sunday, another top army...

  The Islamic State group has executed at least 217 people, including civilians, in the nine days since it captured areas in Syria's Homs province including the ancient city of Palmyra, a monitor said Sunday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had documented the executions of...

 Hezbollah will not allow a single jihadi to remain on the outskirts of Lebanon's northeastern border town of Arsal, party chief Hasan Nasrallah said Sunday, vowing to push on with the Qalamoun offensive until the frontier with Syria is secure. Ignoring calls by his political rivals to...