A female Kurdish fighter carried out a suicide bomb attack against jihadists from the Islamic State group outside the embattled Syrian border town of Kobane on Sunday, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the woman blew herself up at an ISIS position...

(Reuters) - Islamist militants attacking a Syrian border town fought some of their heaviest battles so far with Kurdish forces on Sunday, a local official said, and five people were wounded inside Turkey by a projectile fired across the frontier. Islamic State, an al Qaeda...

  (Reuters) - Syria's foreign ministry accused   Turkey   of an "act of aggression" on Friday and warned of severe consequences after Ankara authorized cross-border incursions to fight militants advancing on the frontier. Turkey's parliament gave the government...

(Reuters) - Islamic State militants fighting in Iraq and Syria posted a video on Friday that appeared to show the beheading of British aid worker Alan Henning, triggering condemnation by the British and U.S. governments. The footage on YouTube, highlighted on pro-Islamic State Twitter...