Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Thursday Turkey would strike against U.S.-backed Kurdish YPG militia in Manbij if they advanced into the Syrian city and found them present, according to NTV television. A spokesman for President Tayyip Erdogan said the YPG should move out of Manbij to...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Russian-backed Syrian regime forces have captured  an airbase in the eastern countryside of Aleppo province amid reports saying the Islamic State has handed over the strategic stronghold to regime, pro-government Press TV and local reporter said Thursday. A...

Iraqi forces battled Islamic State militants in their stronghold of Mosul on Wednesday and took control of the last major road leading west from the city, before bomb blasts ripped through a wedding party near Tikrit, killing more than 20 people. The blasts in the village of Hajjaj, reported...

Some 130,000 people who have fled to the northern Syrian city of Manbij and nearby rural areas are in dire need of international aid, the head of a Manbij civil affairs council said on Wednesday. The displaced had mostly left areas near Manbij that were held by Islamic State in the last...