At least 20 civilians have been killed and dozens injured in the past twenty-four hour of bombing, following Russian air-strikes in West Aleppo and its surrounding areas. A squadron of Russian war planes bombed a number of villages and residential areas in "revenge" missions, following a...

(Al Arabiya)- Iraqi special forces cleared buildings on Saturday in neighborhoods they entered in eastern Mosul a day earlier, after pushing out ISIS militants in their drive to take back the city. Fighting continued in the morning, with both sides firing mortars and automatic weapons on...

(The Daily Star)- Iraqi special forces stepped up attacks against ISIS fighters in their Mosul stronghold Friday, seeking to expand the army's foothold in the east of the city after the leader of the extremist group told his fighters there could be no retreat. An officer in the elite Counter...

When Islamic State insurgents fired mortar bombs at Iranian Kurdish women fighters holding a desert position in northern Iraq, the women first hit back by singing through loudspeakers. Then the women opened fire with machineguns. "We wanted to make them angry. To tell Daesh that we are...