LONDON (AP) — Britain's government on Tuesday formally declared that atrocities committed by the Islamic State group against the Yazidi people in Iraq were acts of genocide. The U.K. Foreign Office said the government's official acknowledgement came after a recent landmark ruling by the...

The state-run Tishreen newspaper reported Monday unprecedented rise in resignations from various government and public sectors, coinciding with a stifling economic crisis and a historic collapse of the local currency. In Damascus alone, the number of resignations during the first half of...

Daesh group militants attacked a convoy of oil tankers guarded by the army in the Syrian desert on Tuesday, killing seven people including two civilians, a war monitor said. “Five regime forces and two drivers have been killed in the armed attack by Daesh militants” in the east of Hama...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Kurdish-led armed groups in Iraq and Syria alleged that Turkish airstrikes killed a total of eight of their fighters Friday. The counterterrorism service of the regional government in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq said in a statement that four members...