Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces attacked an ISIS-held town northeast of Mosul Monday, trying to clear a pocket of militants outside the city while Iraqi troops wage a fierce urban war with the extremists in its eastern neighborhoods. The first waves of a 2,000-strong peshmerga force entered...

 The men receive a hero's welcome as they step off the green buses in Syria's Idlib province with guns slung over their shoulders, having been forced to leave besieged and bombarded towns and cities as part of local truce deals with the government in Damascus. For more than two years...

A U.S.-backed assault on Raqqa, ISIS's de facto capital in Syria, is unlikely to pierce the city itself before President Barack Obama leaves office in January, denying him the chance to claim the end of the group's "caliphate" as part of his legacy. Although a U.S.-backed alliance of Syrian...

Hundreds of families have been driven out of the Iraqi city of Kirkuk in apparent retaliation for a recent attack by ISIS, Amnesty International said Monday. Authorities in the Kurdish-controlled city demolished the homes of hundreds of Arab residents and ordered them to leave Kirkuk in the...