Iraqi forces retook two more neighborhoods in west Mosul on Thursday, tightening the noose around extremists holed up in the Old City, commanders said. "The forces completed the liberation of Al-Thawra neighborhood," Sabah al-Noman, spokesman for the elite Counter-Terrorism Service, told...

Israel's military said on Wednesday it believes Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces still possess several tonnes of chemical weapons, issuing the assessment two weeks after a chemical attack that killed nearly 90 people in Syria. Israel, along with many countries, blames the strike on...

The U.S. military is trying to determine what chemical ISIS used against Iraqi government forces last weekend, the commander of anti-ISIS coalition ground forces said Wednesday. Maj. Gen. Joseph Martin told reporters via video link from Baghdad that Iraqi forces were treated after a strike...

 Sarin or a similar banned toxin was used in an attack in Syria's Idlib province on April 4 that killed nearly 90 people, the global chemical weapons watchdog said on Wednesday. The finding supported earlier testing by Turkish and British laboratories. The Organization for the...