Iraqi forces have thwarted an attempt by around 200 extremist fighters to flee their bastion of Tal Afar toward Syria, west of the city of Mosul, a security spokesman said Monday. Forces from the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization), a paramilitary organization dominated by Shiite...

A Belgian man was sentenced to 28 years in jail Monday for killing a prisoner while fighting with extremist groups in Syria, the first murder conviction of a returned fighter in Belgium. Hakim Elouassaki, 24, returned to Belgium in 2013 after being wounded in the conflict, a few months after...

Syrian extremists seen as close to ISIS battled a rival hard-line Islamist faction Monday in northwestern Syria, activists and an official with another insurgent group said, in an escalating power struggle. Jund al-Aqsa and Tahrir al-Sham clashed around Kafr Zeita in the countryside north of...

(The Daily Mail )- Every day, the bodies were delivered to the hospital: battered beyond belief and hideously scarred from months of the most horrific torture imaginable. The corpses were shrivelled from dehydration and starvation, with ribs sticking out and limbs like sticks. Most were...