Turkey on Tuesday lashed out at what it called "unacceptable" remarks by a senior U.S. official suggesting Ankara had encouraged the rise of Al-Qaeda-linked groups in Syria's Idlib province. Brett McGurk, the senior U.S. envoy to the international coalition fighting Daesh (ISIS), said Idlib...

The U.S-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are on the verge of seizing full control of the southern neighborhoods of Daesh (ISIS)-held Raqqa, a Kurdish official said on Tuesday. The U.S.-led coalition said SDF fighters advancing from the east were within 300 metres of meeting up with...

( The New York Times )- The boy did not want to see a beheading, so he held his mother’s hand tight and tried to close his eyes. But seeing it was mandatory when the Islamic State ruled his hometown in northern Syria: If you were out on the street, you had to watch. The boy, now 11 and a...

The Saudi-backed Yemeni government will not allow its Houthi foes to keep the Red Sea port of Hodeidah, the information minister said, underlining its intention to remove the vital aid delivery point from the control of the Iran-aligned group. The United Nations has proposed that Hodeidah,...