( The Guardian )- The Turkish president will seek to persuade Donald Trump to reverse his “mistaken and shortsighted” plan to arm Kurdish forces in Syria, announced as part of an American attempt to crush Islamic State’s final stronghold in Raqqa. US officials this week announced a...

Turkey has agreed to a request from the Australian government to extradite a citizen it believes to be a top recruiter for ISIS, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Friday. Melbourne-born Neil Prakash has been linked to several Australia-based attack plans and has appeared in ISIS videos...

By Josh Rogin ( Washington Post )- President Trump’s Wednesday meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the White House was not primarily about sanctions or Crimea or even Russian interference in the 2016 election. According to Trump, the U.S. government now looks favorably...

The capture of a key Syrian town and a nearby dam from ISIS militants by Syrian Kurdish-led forces undermines the ISIS's ability to defend its de facto capital, Raqqa and disrupts its ability to plan attacks in Western countries, the U.S.-led international coalition said Thursday. Tabqa and...