(Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-backed Syria Democratic Forces pressed rapid advances against the Islamic State in Raqqa province on Monday, making the strategic Euphrates dam just few blocks from its sight, sources said. The Kurdish-led alliance of Kurds and Arabs on Saturday took the village of...

The Pentagon on Monday denied that it had coordinated air strikes with Russia in Syria, after Russia's defense ministry said the United States had provided coordinates for Islamic State militants. The Russian defense ministry said the Russian military had received coordinates of Islamic...

A 21-year-old man arrested in Germany on suspicion of planning an Islamist attack has admitted links to a man being held by the Austrian police for the same reason, German investigators said on Monday. Police in Vienna said they would remain on high alert until they could rule out that...

ISIS expelled civilians from their homes along the Tigris on Mosul's west bank, apparently bracing for a cross-river attack on their bastion by Iraqi forces, residents said Monday. "The group forced us to leave our homes... without allowing us to take our belongings," a resident of...