ISIS fighters have captured Palmyra castle overlooking the ancient city in eastern Syria, a news agency affiliated to the militants said Sunday. Heavy Russian airstrikes had pushed back the militants from inside the city hours after they captured it last Saturday in a surprise...

Turkish warplanes destroyed 27 ISIS targets and killed 12 militants in the latest operations in northern Syria, the Turkish army said Sunday. The jets hit shelters, vehicles mounted with guns, ammunition depots and other targets strikes in the al-Bab, Bzagah and Kabr al Mukri regions of...

Russian air strikes forced Islamic State fighters to retreat to the outskirts of Palmyra on Sunday, a day after they had stormed the ancient city in eastern Syria, a war monitor said. The militants were now fighting in orchards on the fringe of Palmyra, the British-based Syrian Observatory...

At least 19 PKK terrorists were killed in airstrikes carried out by Turkish jets in northern Iraq, the military announced Saturday. The Turkish General Staff said in a statement that 19 terrorists had been "neutralized" in a security operation in the Gara region of northern Iraq. At...