The Pentagon said Monday it is committed to conducting Manbij operations consistent with commitments made between the U.S. and Turkey. "We have been clear with all elements of this operation that the aim is to defeat Daesh in Manbij and return it to the control and governance of the local...

Turkey expects Syrian Kurdish fighters to withdraw east of the Euphrates river after they and other U.S.-backed forces seized control of the Syrian town of Manbij from Islamic State last week, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday. The Syria Democratic Forces (SDF), a U.S.-backed...

A Saudi-led coalition air strike hit a hospital operated by Medecins Sans Frontieres in northern Yemen on Monday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 19, the aid group said. A Reuters witness at the scene of the attack in the Abs district of Hajja province said medics could not immediately...

Kurdish Peshmerga forces Monday said they had secured a river crossing point enabling them to open a new front against ISIS and further tighten their grip on the militants' capital Mosul. Backed by airstrikes from the U.S.-led coalition, Kurdish fighters reached Kanhash, the western side of...