Syrian government and Russian warplanes pounded rebel-held parts of northern Syria Wednesday, including battered second city Aleppo, where food aid rations were all-but-exhausted after months of regime siege. The renewed bombardment has killed at least 20 people, including nine children, in...

Elite Iraqi forces were engaged in "intense" fighting with jihadists in eastern Mosul on Saturday, an officer said, as civilians gathered on the city's outskirts to flee. Iraqi forces launched a massive operation to retake the country's second city from the Islamic State group on October 17,...

Sixty-four civilians were killed and eight injured in 24 U.S. air strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria between Nov. 20, 2015, and Sept. 10, 2016, the U.S. military said in a statement on Wednesday. "In each of the cases released today, the assessment determined that...

Turkey on Monday warned the United States not to allow demographic changes in the Syrian city of Raqqa after Kurdish-Arab forces launched a US-backed operation to capture the Islamic State (IS) bastion. Turkish forces are conspicuously absent from the operation, even though they are present...