Industrial action brought fresh disruption for travellers in Britain Tuesday as rail workers and airline cabin crew walked off the job, the day after a major strike on the London Underground. British Airways was forced to cancel 48 flights over two days at London's Heathrow airport after...

ISIS fighters are increasingly less capable of using trucks packed with explosives against Iraqi troops in Mosul, a sign of their growing weakness, the Pentagon said Monday. "We see fewer and fewer VBIED than we had previously in Mosul," Pentagon spokesman Navy Captain Jeff Davis said, using...

(Council on Foreign Relations)- Syria’s civil war has grown ever more complex in the nearly six years since protesters first challenged the government. President Bashar al-Assad aims to reassert control nationwide, while predominantly Sunni Arab opposition forces seek to wrest the state from...

ISIS has blown up a natural gas plant that supplied one-third of Syria's electricity, one month after getting its hands on the facility, pro-opposition activists said Monday. "In the past 48 hours, IS (ISIS) blew up the Hayyan gas plant in eastern Homs province, putting it totally out of...