The United States is pressing allies on Thursday to contribute more to a U.S.-led military campaign against Islamic State that it says must be accelerated, regardless of the fate of diplomatic efforts to end Syria's civil war. U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter is due to start...

Operations by Turkish security forces against Kurdish militants in the town of Cizre have been successfully completed but a curfew will remain in place, Interior Minister Efkan Ala said on Thursday in comments broadcast live by TRT television. Authorities imposed a...

Kurdish fighters backed by Russian bombing raids have driven Syrian rebels from a former military air base near the border with Turkey, a group that monitors the war said on Thursday. Rebel groups have been distracted by a major offensive in the area by the Syrian army and its...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A military offensive by Syrian regime forces and allied forces have cut supply routes to 120,000 people in northern Homs governorate since mid-January, causing a risk of hunger and deaths due to lack of medical care, the United Nations said Thursday. "There are reports of...