The U.S.-led coalition have air-dropped ground forces near the Islamic State-held town of Tabqa in northern Syria, opening a new front in the campaign to capture the jihadist group's nearby stronghold of Raqqa city. The Pentagon said on Wednesday the U.S. military had airlifted allied Syrian...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that Europeans across the world would not be able to walk safely on the streets if they kept up their current attitude. Turkey has been embroiled in a row with Germany and the Netherlands over the barring of campaign appearances by Turkish...

The United States and Britain on Tuesday imposed restrictions on carry-on electronic devices on planes coming from certain airports in Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East and North Africa in response to unspecified security threats. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said...

(The Telegraph)- Russia is to build a base and send military personnel to northern Syria to train the YPG, the US-backed Kurdish group, the militia has said.   Redur Xelil, a spokesman for the group, said troops with armoured vehicles had already arrived near the town of Afrin, 25 miles...