More than 62,000 people uprooted by fighting around Islamic State’s last pocket in Syria have flooded al-Hol displacement camp in Syria, with 5,200 arriving between March 5-7 and thousands more expected, the United Nations said on Friday. “Al-Hol camp has significantly surpassed its...

Holdout Islamic State group fighters hunkered down in a riverside camp in eastern Syria Friday as US-backed forces pressed to expel them from the last scrap of their dying "caliphate". Thousands of men, women and children have poured out of the pocket of territory in the village of Baghouz...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads into the crucial final weeks of his re-election campaign for April 9 polls fighting for his political life while under threat of indictment for corruption. With a month to go, the longtime prime minister has found himself locked in a close...

Torched tents, a rain of bullets, the thunderous whoosh of warplanes muffling the call to prayer: survivors say life inside the Islamic State group's dying "caliphate" was a bleak catalogue of despair. The crackle and thud of gunfire and shelling filled the air as plumes of thick black...