Retired four-star Army General John Abizaid, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be ambassador to Saudi Arabia, said on Wednesday that the Islamic State militant group has been “nearly vanquished on the ground,” but remains a “potent threat” to the United States and its allies....

An influx of thousands of people fleeing Islamic State has created “dire” conditions at the al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria, the aid agencies working there said on Tuesday. About 15,000 people have arrived at the camp in the last week alone as the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces...

A spokesman for the U.S.-backed Syrian forces fighting Daesh (ISIS) says thousands of people, including militants, have left the last area held by the extremists in Syria. Mustafa Bali tweeted that about 3,000 came out of the village of Baghouz in eastern Syria on Monday through a...

Republican and Democratic U.S. senators said on Monday they were frustrated with the Trump administration’s failure to provide more information about the murder of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi and vowed to push for a stronger response. State and Treasury Department officials...