US-backed fighters battled to clear ISIS from a final pocket of Syria's Tabqa on Tuesday after seizing 90 percent of the city, the force and a monitor said. Tabqa sits on the Euphrates River as well as on a strategic supply route about 55 kilometers (35 miles) west of Raqqa, the Syrian heart...

The top U.S. military officer in Europe raised concerns about Turkish air strikes in Syria and Iraq during a meeting last week with Ankara's chief of general staff in Turkey, a U.S. official said on Tuesday. General Curtis Scaparrotti told General Hulusi Akar last Friday that the strikes...

Two Israeli air strikes against Hezbollah targets in Syria in recent weeks seem to mark a more openly assertive stance toward the group after years of shadow boxing, requiring careful calibration to avoid escalation into a war that neither wants. For most of the six-year-long conflict in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led airstrikes killed three civilians and wounded several more east of Shaddadi town in northeastern Hasaka province, residents said Tuesday. The attack was in retaliation to a deadly four ISIS suicide bombing on Rajm al-Salibi, the location of a checkpoint and refugee...