The bodies of dozens of civilians killed in the past two days while fleeing an ISIS-held neighborhood in Mosul lay on Saturday in a street close to the frontline with Iraqi armed forces, a Reuters TV crew reported. The dead included men, women and children. Bags in which they had carried...

( Financial Times )- By the time he reached Turkey after fleeing his hometown of Raqqa, the de facto capital of Isis in Syria, Hassan was destitute and desperate. And so, over his own misgivings, he helped a friend working with western intelligence to pinpoint the location of an Isis jail in...

U.S.-backed forces captured a town west of Raqqa from Islamic State on Friday as they push toward the militants' Syrian stronghold, a security source and a monitoring group said. The United States said this week it started distributing weapons to Kurdish YPG militiamen who form a key part of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hussam al-Atrash, a senior leader in Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, published a series of tweets saying that Sunnis in Idlib and its environs should hand over the area to the Interim Government to administrate since it had international legitimacy in a bid to avoid genocide and the...