Salwa Sayed al-Omar spent years as a Yazidi prisoner of Islamic State but she escaped its clutches this week, fleeing its last populated enclave in east Syria along with two Iraqi boys pretending to be her brothers. Islamic State overran the Yazidi faith’s heartland of Sinjar in northern...

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) paused military operations against Islamic State (IS) militants holed up in the group’s final enclave in eastern Syria, expecting more civilians to be evacuated from the area on Saturday, an SDF official said. Thousands of people - many of...

A Strasbourg-based non-governmental organization on Saturday called for “immediate” release of the women and children in Syrian prisons “without any condition.” “We invite everyone in the world who has a conscience to speak up until the last Syrian women and children are...

The baby son of Shamima Begum, a British-born teenager who left London to join the Islamic State group, has died in Syria, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces has said. Begum, 19, who was stripped of her citizenship for joining IS by the British government despite her wish to return,...