BEIRUT: Syrian rebels fought fierce clashes with loyalist troops Saturday as they tried to secure their supply line to Aleppo against advances by the army, an activist group said. The clashes in the divided area of Handarat just north of Aleppo, came a day after fighting that...

ARBIL, Iraq, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Kurdish regional forces retook the northern Iraqi town of Zumar and several nearby villages from Islamic State insurgents on Saturday, security sources said. A Kurdish intelligence officer in Zumar said peshmerga forces had...

Ten children and five women have been killed in Syrian government air strikes in the northern province of Aleppo, a monitoring group said Friday. The children, aged from four to 10, and women were killed Thursday "in barrel bomb strikes by regime helicopters on a home and public...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sixty-five percent of Americans now say the threat from the Islamic State group is very or even extremely important, and nearly half think the U.S. military response in Iraq and Syria has not gone far enough, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll. Most want...