CAIRO (AP) — The United States has stepped up pressure on Middle East allies to expel the Wagner Group, a military contractor with close ties to Russia's president, from chaos-stricken Libya and Sudan where it expanded in recent years, regional officials told The Associated Press. The U.S....

NEW YORK (AP) — He had been brought from the battlefields of Syria to a New York lockup, a U.S. citizen charged with serving as a sniper and weapons trainer for the Islamic State group. And even in jail, Ruslan Maratovich Asainov kept a makeshift version of the militants' black flag right...

 By Ammar Azzouz Once it was the capital of the Syrian Revolution and in all the newspaper headlines. In its neighborhoods and alleyways, the rebels held out against government forces for years. Many buildings were flattened or shot full of holes. In the end, as everyone knows, the...

The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces launched an arrest campaign in the northeastern province of Raqqa, claiming capture of 8 Islamic State militants, the media office said Tuesday. Under the name of "revenge for the martyrs of Raqqa", which was launched by the SDF a few days ago in the...