At least 28 Syrian government soldiers and pro-regime fighters were killed Wednesday in a rebel ambush in the eastern Ghouta region near Damascus, a monitor said Thursday. The fighters came under attack by the Army of Islam rebel group as they attempted to advance in the town of...

The parents of a U.S. journalist kidnapped in Syria nearly five years ago issued a new plea for his release on Thursday. Austin Tice, a freelance reporter and former U.S. Marine from Houston, Texas, was kidnapped in August 2012 aged 31 while reporting in Damascus on the uprising against...

Some 250 residents of Syria's Raqqa province are the latest batch to graduate from a brief U.S. training course. They are part of an internal security force to hold and secure areas as they are captured from Daesh (ISIS) militants. The graduation ceremony Thursday in the desert town of Ain...

Iraqi forces on Thursday regained control over Imam Gharbi, a village south of Mosul, from Daesh (ISIS) militants who had seized it as their defense of their stronghold in the city crumbled, Iraqi police said. The action formed part of the next phase of the U.S.-backed government's campaign...