Hundreds of Boko Haram fighters and their families have surrendered in Chad in the past month, security and U.N. sources said, in a sign the military campaign against them is making headway. Boko Haram, which has killed and kidnapped thousands of people, had seized an area approximately the...

Elite Iraqi forces were engaged in "intense" fighting with jihadists in eastern Mosul on Saturday, an officer said, as civilians gathered on the city's outskirts to flee. Iraqi forces launched a massive operation to retake the country's second city from the Islamic State group on October 17,...

(Hurriyet Daily News)- Turkish warplanes hit Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) targets in west of Salva town in Syria late on Nov. 11, resuming its flights in Syrian airspace after more than two weeks of suspension. 18 members of the ISIL were killed in strikes targeting two...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Jaish al-Islam group and Faylaq al-Rahman exchanged accusatory statements regarding an incident of gun fire exchange and arrest in Saqba suburb in Eastern Ghouta.  The verbal clash comes as activists launch the “Stand with Douma” campaign to shed...