Somali security forces have ended a night-long siege by at a Mogadishu hotel by five extremist attackers who stormed the building after a suicide car bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at the entrance gate Saturday afternoon. The attack killed 23 people. Troops regained...

Syrian and Iraqi forces closing in on the last scraps of Islamic State’s caliphate straddling the remote border area between the two countries have already witnessed the jihadists’ likely response. While their comrades mounted last stands in their Syrian capital of Raqqa and the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a base belongs to moderate rebels in southern Daraa province, leaving one fighter dead and ten more wounded, local activists said Tuesday. The attack targeted ‘Mu'taz Bellah’ Brigade in Mzairib town in the western...

The U.S.-led coalition Tuesday denied striking Deir al-Zor city in eastern Syria after Damascus accused its jets of killing more than a dozen people. Syrian state television had said the U.S.-led coalition hit the government-held Qusour district, killing 14 civilians and wounding 32, on...