Islamic State attacked an Iraqi police checkpoint near the southern city of Najaf on Sunday, killing seven policemen as government forces in the north made more gains against the militants in Mosul, their last major stronghold in the country. The Najaf attack, which involved gunmen and a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces on Sunday captured strategic town after fierce fighting with ISIS in the western countryside of Raqqa city, the U.S.-backed militia said. Capture of the village of al-Mahmoudelly will push SDF further to encircle al-Raqqa city , the de facto...

Syrian government warplanes carried out several airstrikes and low-level clashes persisted in some areas Sunday, but a Russian and Turkish-backed ceasefire largely held in other areas on its third day, activists and rebels said. Jets bombed the villages of Kafr Kar, Mintar and around...

(The Huffington Post)- The first airstrike hit at 9:02 on the morning of Feb. 15. As rescue teams dashed to the scene, warplanes circled back for a “double tap,” pummeling the isolated hospital in northwestern Syria a second time, minutes later. And a third. And a fourth. Twenty-five...