Iraqi forces clashed with Daesh (ISIS) militants holding out in Mosul's Old City on Wednesday, more than 36 hours after Baghdad declared victory over the extremists in what they had made the de facto Iraqi capital of their self-declared caliphate. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's victory...

Two Palestinian men were shot dead during clashes with the Israeli army in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank early Wednesday, Palestinian medical and security sources said. One of the two had been evacuated in serious condition and later succumbed to his wounds, medical...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 10 people from the same family were killed when U.S.-led warplanes struck the southern countryside of Hasaka province, activists said Tuesday. The strikes hit al-Zyanat village near Markada town, ISIS last stronghold in Hasaka. Last Wednesday,...

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...