U.S. military officials said Thursday there could have been more civilian casualties than initially thought in the raid that killed the top Islamic State leader in Syria last week, but they believe any such deaths were caused by the militant's suicide bomb and were not at the hands of American...

Roza Barakat's tormentors have been defeated, but the horrors she endured still hold her captive. She was 11 years old when she was captured and enslaved by the Islamic State group, along with thousands of other Yazidi women and girls taken when the militants overran northern Iraq in their...

A Palestinian journalist, who was fired from Germany’s international broadcaster for alleged antisemitic views, has strongly criticized the management for unfair treatment and censoring freedom of speech. “I’m not antisemitic. I am someone who believes in freedom of speech,” Maram...

A building collapse in northwest Syria has killed a woman and three of her children, while her husband and three other children survived, the opposition Syrian Civil Defence group said. The collapse of the building on Wednesday night on the southern edge of the city of Idlib came as...