Iraq will announce imminently a final victory in the nearly nine-month offensive to retake Mosul from jihadists, a US general said Saturday, as celebrations broke out among police forces in the city. The defeat would be the biggest yet for the Islamic State group three years since it seized...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- 100 refugees fleeing U.S. aerial bombing in Deir Ezzor have arrived to Qana camp in Hasaka province as U.S.-backed Kurdish forces struggle to gain ground against ISIS in eastern Syria, local reporter said Saturday. Qana camp, which is a shelter for displaced people...

Daesh (ISIS) claimed responsibility for an attack on a remote Egyptian army outpost in the Sinai Peninsula with a suicide car bomb and heavy machine gun fire. The assault killed at least 23 soldiers in the deadliest attack in the turbulent region in two years. Daesh made the claim after...

At least 23 Egyptian soldiers were killed when two suicide car bombs tore through army checkpoints in North Sinai province on Friday, security sources said, one of the bloodiest assaults on security forces for months. Militants are waging an insurgency in the rugged, thinly populated Sinai...