U.S.-backed fighters Thursday gave ISIS 48 hours to leave the battleground Syrian town of Manbij, after U.S.-led airstrikes nearby reportedly killed dozens of civilians. The raids Tuesday by the coalition fighting ISIS in Syria and Iraq have provoked an intense backlash and local protests....

 The head of the opposition Syrian National Coalition called for a suspension of the U.S.-led air campaign against Islamic State in Syria while reports of dozens of civilian deaths from air strikes around the northern city of Manbij are investigated. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory...

Turkey vowed to root out allies of the U.S.-based cleric it blames for an abortive coup last week, widening a purge of the army, police and judiciary on Tuesday to universities and schools, the intelligence agency and religious authorities. Around 50,000 soldiers, police, judges, civil...

Writing by Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- A Turkish newspaper confirmed that aircraft of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was harassed by two F16s when Erdogan was returning to Istanbul from a holiday in Marmaris south of Turkey during the coup attempt. The Daily Sabah Newspaper...