Daesh leaders are leaving Mosul as Iraqi forces prepare to take the city held by the militant group since 2014, a Canadian general said Wednesday. Comments by Brig. Gen. Dave Anderson, who heads the U.S.-led coalition’s train-and-equip program for Iraqi and Kurdish peshmerga forces, came...

Greek airports will shut down from Sunday, the air traffic controllers’ union said Wednesday as it announced a four-day strike, local media reported. The consecutive 24-hour strikes were declared in response to a bill introduced late Tuesday night in parliament on the restructuring of the...

Syria's army will reduce air strikes and shelling on rebel-held eastern Aleppo on humanitarian grounds, it said on Wednesday, after mounting international criticism of it and Russia. Last month, the army - backed by Shi'ite militias from Lebanon and Iraq, and by Russian jets - launched a new...

France is to launch a new push for United Nations backing for a ceasefire in Syria that would allow aid into the city of Aleppo after some of the heaviest bombing of the war. As diplomatic efforts resumed, a Syrian military source said army commanders had decided to scale back air strikes...