Men, women and children walk down a main road in west Mosul with arms full and carts loaded, but they are not among the people fleeing fighting in the city. The operation to retake Mosul from Daesh (ISIS) has pushed hundreds of thousands of residents to flee their homes – leaving...

 As U.S.-backed forces prepare a final assault on Daesh’s (ISIS) Syrian bastion Raqqa, displaced civilians are dreaming of spending the end of Ramadan feast back home. The Kurdish-Arab Syrian Democratic Forces militia is expected to begin its assault on the northern Syrian city as early...

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Israel will maintain security control over all of the West Bank, with or without a peace agreement with the Palestinians. Speaking at a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Mideast war, when Israel captured the...

About 100,000 children are trapped in extremely dangerous conditions in the remaining Islamic State-held enclave in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the United Nations said on Monday. Children were being used as human shields by the insurgents or were caught in the crossfire of the battle,...