The Turkish Armed Forces hit at least 78 Daesh targets in northern Syria on Wednesday as part of the ongoing Operation Euphrates Shield. In a statement, the Turkish Armed Forces said 68 Daesh targets had been hit with 252 Firtina (storm) howitzer fire and 80 rounds of multiple rocket...

Daesh leaders are leaving Mosul as Iraqi forces prepare to take the city held by the militant group since 2014, a Canadian general said Wednesday. Comments by Brig. Gen. Dave Anderson, who heads the U.S.-led coalition’s train-and-equip program for Iraqi and Kurdish peshmerga forces, came...

France is to launch a new push for United Nations backing for a ceasefire in Syria that would allow aid into the city of Aleppo after some of the heaviest bombing of the war. As diplomatic efforts resumed, a Syrian military source said army commanders had decided to scale back air strikes...

The Taliban should look at the example of a deal between the Afghan government and militant commander Gulbuddin Hekmatyar as a path to an "honorable" peace in Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday. Kerry told an international conference in Brussels to raise funds...