Iraqi forces on Thursday imposed a curfew in parts of eastern Mosul recently captured from the Daesh terrorist group, according to a military source. "On Thursday morning, the army imposed a curfew in the Kokjali area, one of the first neighborhoods in eastern Mosul to be retaken from...

As Syria's regime presses a fierce assault on eastern Aleppo, its siege is making life ever harder for civilians who being forced to sift through garbage for food and scavenge firewood from bombed-out buildings. With winter setting in, shortages of food, medicine and fuel coupled with intense...

Fears of possible sectarian conflict continued to mount on Friday as Shia militiamen surround northern Iraq’s Daesh-held, Sunni-majority city of Tal Afar. Fighters from the Hashd al-Shaabi, an umbrella group of pro-government Shia militias, now surround the city -- populated mainly by...

Turkish warplanes carried out air strikes on the Syrian city of al-Bab held by Islamic State on Friday, the military said in a statement, after four Turkish soldiers were killed in the area over the past two days. The air strikes shortly before 8 a.m. (0500 GMT) destroyed buildings believed...