(BBC)- The Iraqi military says it has launched a new offensive aimed at re-capturing western towns near the Syrian border from the jihadist group Islamic State. The operation will involve army and federal police units, along with tribal fighters. Their main targets are the towns of...

Syrian pro-regime forces clashed with rebels around the main water source for Damascus Thursday, activists said, threatening a fragile ceasefire as it entered its seventh day. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said government troops backed by fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah...

Turkish warplanes and artillery have struck ISIS targets in Syria, 'neutralizing' 38 of the group's militants, Turkey's military said in a statement Thursday. In a round-up of its military operations over the last 24 hours in support of rebels in northern Syria, the army said airstrikes by...

Thousands of people are starting to return to formerly rebel-held east Aleppo despite freezing weather and destruction "beyond imagination", a top U.N. official told Reuters from the Syrian city. In the last couple of days around 2,200 families have returned to the Hanano housing district,...