The United States and its allies held top-level military talks Tuesday as Washington hailed signs of progress in the fight against jihadists following a wave of air strikes in Syria. American-led warplanes hammered Islamic State (IS) group militants with 21 bombing raids near...

(Reuters) - Lieutenant General Mahdi Gharawi knew an attack was coming. In late May, Iraqi security forces arrested seven members of militant group Islamic State in Mosul and learned the group planned an offensive on the city in early June. Gharawi, the operational commander of...

Commanders from the US-led coalition against Islamic State jihadists will meet in Washington Tuesday to discuss halting the group's advance in Iraq and Syria, as air strikes failed to stop militants from reaching the centre of Kobane. IS fighters claimed nearly half of the...

(AFP)- At least eight people, among them three children, were killed in Syrian government shelling of the last rebel-held district of Homs city on Wednesday, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported the deaths in the Waar neighbourhood, the only part of...