U.S.-backed Syrian rebels were pushed back from the outskirts of an Islamic State-held town on the border with Iraq and a nearby air base on Wednesday after the jihadists mounted a counter- attack, two rebel sources said. The New Syria Army rebel group had launched an operation on...

Syrian rebels advanced into an Islamic State-held town at the border with Iraq on Wednesday, a rebel commander told Reuters, in a new U.S.-backed offensive aimed at cutting the jihadists' self-declared caliphate in two. The operation aiming to capture the eastern Syrian town of Al-Bukamal,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish self-administration allowed entrance of tens of displaced Iraqi migrants to al-Houl town in the Hasaka eastern countryside in the past two days after the families were stuck on the borders between Iraq and Syria. Field activist Malaz al-Yousef told Zaman al-Wasl more...

Iraq's army sought on Monday to eliminate Islamic State fighters holed up in farmland west of Falluja to keep them from launching a counterattack on the city, a day after the government declared victory over the militants there. Backed by air strikes from a U.S.-led coalition, Iraqi artillery...