WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Around 1,000 recruits from a vast region stretching from India to the Pacific may have joined Islamic State to fight in Syria or Iraq, a senior U.S. military commander said on Thursday. "That number could get larger as we go forward," Navy...

Syrian Kurdish fighters have halted an advance by Islamic State fighters to the east of a predominantly Kurdish town near the border with Turkey, a spokesman for the main armed Kurdish group told Reuters. "Fierce clashes are still under way but the ISIS...

(Reuters) - Syrian Kurdish fighters have halted an advance by Islamic State fighters to the east of a predominantly Kurdish town near the border with Turkey , a spokesman for the main armed Kurdish group said. "Fierce clashes are still under way but the ISIS (Islamic State)...

(Reuters) - French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Monday his nation would not launch air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants based in Syria despite having bombed a suspected target of the group in northern Iraq last week. Islamic State is a hard-line Sunni...