(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces on Tuesday pressed new advances in the northern countryside of Raqqa city, taking three villages from ISIS after fierce fighting, the U.S. backed group said. The coalition of Kurdish and Arab fighters took villages of al-Dahlan, Arir and...

 A suspected U.S.-led airstrike on Tuesday killed at least 30 members of former Al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham Front including senior figures, an activist group said. Unidentified aircraft "hit a major base of Fateh al-Sham near to the town of Sarmada" in the northwestern province of...

Iraqi forces on Tuesday captured a major district of Daesh-held Mosul amid an ongoing army offensive aimed at ousting the terrorist group from the northern city.  "Iraqi forces have taken Mosul’s southeastern Al-Hay al-Senai district following fierce clashes with Daesh militants,"...

The U.S. Defense Department, reacting to North Korea's statement that it plans to test an intercontinental ballistic missile, said Tuesday it was confident in its ability to protect U.S. allies and the U.S. homeland from threats from Pyongyang. "We have a ballistic missile defense ......