Iraqi forces pushed deeper into Mosul's Old City on Monday after launching a final assault on ISIS, warning civilians to stay inside and telling extremists to "surrender or die". Iraqi forces launched the operation Sunday to retake the district, the last part of Iraq's second city still held...

( The Wall Street Journal )- Israel has been regularly supplying Syrian rebels near its border with cash as well as food, fuel and medical supplies for years, a secret engagement in the enemy country’s civil war aimed at carving out a buffer zone populated by friendly forces. The Israeli...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 12 people from the same family were killed Sunday in the U.S.-led coalition air strikes in Hasaka province, the Islamic State’s news agency said. Amaq, ISIS media wing, said most of the victims were women and children in the attack on Tel al-Shayer village near the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters launched surprise attack on Kurdish militia in the southern countryside of Hasaka, local activists said Sunday. Ahmed al-Ali, Hasaka-based activist, said ISIS suicide bombers had started the attack onthe Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) near...