Neither Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga nor will any Shia militia will enter the Mosul proper, as Iraqi forces prepare to retake the city, the second in command at the State Department told lawmakers Thursday. Hailing the highly anticipated offensive as the “culmination” of the counter-Daesh...

The United States accused Russia of "barbarism" in Syria on Sunday as warplanes supporting Syrian government forces pounded Aleppo and Moscow said ending the civil war was almost "impossible". A diplomatic solution to the fighting looked unlikely as U.S. and Russian diplomats disagreed at a...

Warplanes bombed a strategic camp on the northern edge of Aleppo on Sunday as Syrian government and rebel forces battled for control of the city in a Russian-backed offensive that appears to have buried any hope for diplomacy. The United Nations Security Council will meet at 11 a.m. (1500...

Iraq's military backed by air strikes from a U.S.-led coalition on Thursday seized the center of Shirqat, a northern town seen as a stepping stone in the campaign to recapture Mosul from Islamic State. The army, backed by local police and Sunni Muslim tribal fighters, were still clashing...