Iraqi forces have "fully liberated" eastern Mosul from the Daesh terrorist group, Iraq’s army-affiliated counter-terrorism forces announced Wednesday. "Our forces have established total control over eastern Mosul," Lieutenant-General Talib Shaghati, a top commander of the army’s...

(The Wall Street Journal)- The White House conceded on Tuesday that President Barack Obama will not succeed in his efforts to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, before leaving office, removing the option of taking executive action to achieve one of his earliest campaign...

The attacks in Turkey came in rapid succession: twin bombs at a stadium, a Russian diplomat’s murder and then, just a few days later, a mass shooting at an Istanbul nightclub on New Year’s Eve. The assaults, carried out over a three-week period beginning in December, were a stark...

The Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday Russian war planes had joined forces with Turkish jets to target ISIS militants holding the town of al-Bab around 40 km (25 miles) northeast of Aleppo. Lieutenant-General Sergei Rudskoi, a senior Russian Defense Ministry official, said in...