Russian air strikes accidentally killed three Turkish soldiers during an operation against Islamic State in Syria on Thursday, the Turkish military said, highlighting the risk of unintended clashes between the numerous outside powers in a complex war. "During an operation by a Russia...

(New York Times)- A northern Syrian city that is one of the Islamic State’s last enclaves in the country is under assault by military forces bearing down from all sides. The complication is that the advancing forces — the Syrian Army and pro-government militias backed by Russia, and...

(The Guardian)- A self-styled “revolutionary” from Blackburn is believed to have become the first British woman to travel to Syria to join the fight against Isis. Kimberly Taylor, 27, left the UK to join the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), the all-female affiliate army of the...

New CIA chief Mike Pompeo arrived in Ankara Thursday for talks with Turkish officials, on his first foreign visit since the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump. His visit came two days after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke to Trump for the first time in his White House term,...