The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told Reuters on Tuesday that it had "confirmed information" that Daesh (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed. Russia's Defense Ministry said in June that it might have killed Baghdadi when one of its air strikes hit a gathering of Daesh...

Up to 50,000 civilians remain trapped in the Syrian extremist stronghold of Raqqa, the UN said Tuesday, warning that supplies of water and other essentials were fast running out. US-backed forces have been closing in on the last redoubt in Syria of Daesh (ISIS) after penetrating its Old City...

U.S.-backed Syrian militias have captured a town south of the city of Raqqa where Daesh (ISIS) ran a major military base and training camp, a spokesman for the militias said on Tuesday. An alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias fighting under the banner of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)...

Amnesty International said on Tuesday it had identified a pattern of attacks by Iraqi forces and the U.S.-led military coalition backing them in the battle for Mosul that violated international humanitarian law and may amount to war crimes. The rights group said in a report that Daesh (ISIS)...