Al Qaeda in Yemen said its leader Nasser al-Wuhayshi was killed in a U.S. bombing, in a statement posted online. "We in Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula mourn to our Muslim nation ... that Abu Baseer Nasser bin Abdul Karim al-Wuhayshi, God rest his soul, passed away in an American strike which...

More than 23 civilians were killed by heavy insurgent shelling on government-controlled areas of the Syrian city of Aleppo, including near a mosque where children were taking religious lessons, Reuters reported Monday. State-run media said heavy shelling from Aleppo districts under the control...

  The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said Monday it had encircled the ISIS-controlled town of Tal Abyad, the nearest border town to the militant's de facto capital of Raqqa city, Reuters said. YPG spokesman Redur Xelil said the militia had surrounded the town along the Turkish border, pushing...

Kurdish-led militia backed by U.S.-led air strikes fought Islamic State near a Syrian town at the Turkish border on Sunday, a monitoring group and a Kurdish official said, in an advance that has worried Turkey. Concerned about an expansion of Kurdish sway in Syria, Turkish President Tayyip...