Iraqi forces gained fresh ground in door-to-door fighting in the Old City of Mosul, a military spokesman said Monday, as the U.S.-backed offensive to capture ISIS' de facto capital in Iraq entered its seventh month. A Reuters correspondent saw thick smoke billowing over the Old City, near...

The death toll from a bomb attack on a crowded bus convoy outside Aleppo has reached at least 126 in the deadliest such incident in Syria in almost a year, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on Sunday. Syrian rescue workers of the Civil Defense said that they had...

Iraqi forces launched a new attack on ISIS in Mosul's Old City Sunday, military officials said, trying to break the stalemate in attempts to seize the militants' last stronghold. Mosul, Iraq's second biggest city, was captured by the Sunni Muslim fighters in 2014, but government forces have...

Iraqi forces made major gains in the six months since launching the operation to retake Mosul, but the battle for Iraq's second city and the war against ISIS are far from over. Tough close-quarters fighting in heavily-populated areas of Mosul is still ahead, and ISIS also holds territory in...