Islamic State's territory shrank by 40 percent from its maximum expansion in Iraq, and by 20 percent in Syria in 2015, as international forces pushed it out of several cities, the U.S.-led coalition fighting it said on Tuesday. There was no immediate comment from the...

Saudi-led air strikes targeting Iranian-allied Houthi forces intensified in Yemen on Tuesday, residents said, an escalation of a nine-month-old war that follows a rise in tensions between the kingdom and arch foe Tehran. After weeks of a relative lull, large air strikes targeted...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebels are pressing slow advances in the ongoing Sheikh Miskeen battles in the southern Daraa province, senior commander told Zaman al-Wasl Tuesday. Fauzi al-Nassar, commander of al-Sanamayn Martyrs Brigade, said rebels have achieved progress  in the surrounding district...

A fact-finding mission of the global anti-chemical weapons watchdog has found indications that some people in Syria were exposed to deadly sarin gas, or a compound like it, according to a report the United Nations released on Monday. The findings come in the latest monthly...