More than a dozen suspected members of Islamic State appeared under police protection in an Ankara courtroom on Monday accused of involvement in Turkey's deadliest suicide bombing, which killed more than 100 people in the capital just over a year ago. The defendants were brought into the...

Iraqi forces retook a key town from the Islamic State group Monday, a crucial objective on the southern front of the offensive to wrest back the city of Mosul. Federal police, army and elite interior ministry forces established full control over Hamam al-Alil, the last town of note on the...

(Zaman AL Wasl)- The regime’s ِair-forces brigade 24 has been defeated in Deir Ezzor, which pushed the regime to support it with two MIG-21 warplanes brought from Hama Military airport last week, sources reported to Zaman al-Wasl. A well informed source inside the regime Air-forces...

(The Daily Star)- The United Nations is investigating claims that up to 32 civilians were killed in a U.S. airstrike in the volatile Afghan province of Kunduz last week, calling any loss of civilian life "unacceptable." The strike early last Thursday triggered angry protests in Kunduz, with...