ISIS fighters have stepped up counterattacks on Iraqi forces in Mosul amid bad weather as the U.S.-backed offensive to capture their last major city stronghold in Iraq enters its third month. With cloudy skies hampering coalition air surveillance, the militants carried out attacks in three...

Top state agencies and civil aid groups have completed preparations to evacuate civilians from the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo to Turkey’s border province of Hatay, Turkish Red Crescent official said Thursday. Under the coordination of the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency...

An attempt to evacuate people in need of medical attention from rebel-held eastern Aleppo stalled on Thursday when fighters loyal to the Syrian government fired on the convoy, wounding three, the head of the ambulance service said. The vehicles had intended to leave under a deal to evacuate...

Civilians desperately hoping to flee besieged areas of eastern Aleppo found their convoy under fire as a planned evacuation of rebel-held areas appeared under threat, activists in the Syrian city claimed. The alleged attack happened during a tenuous ceasefire that had been announced. Rebels...