Oil prices on Monday dipped below the US$100-a-barrel mark, threatening to pinch oil-dependent states' budgets and getting closer to the level where Arabian Gulf swing producers feel pressured to curb supply. The European benchmark Brent fell below the psychological barrier for the...

  (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters attacked a riverside town north of Baghdad on Monday with gunboats and a car bomb, killing 17 people and wounding 54, a security source said. The source said the attack on Dhuluiya, around 70 km (45 miles) from the capital, was carried...

(Reuters) - Eighteen foreign fighters from the Islamic State, including an American jihadist, were killed in a Syrian air raid on a town near the militant group's main stronghold city of Raqqa in eastern Syria , a human rights monitoring group said on Thursday. The Syrian...

(Reuters) - A record 4.1 million people in   Syria   received food rations in August due to more convoys being able to cross front lines and borders from   Turkey   and Jordan, the U.N.'s World Food Program (WFP) said on Tuesday. "We are reaching more...