Islamic State insurgents faced major assaults on two fronts in both Iraq and Syria on Wednesday in what could prove to be some of the biggest operations to roll back their caliphate since they proclaimed it in 2014. In Syria, U.S.-backed militia with thousands of Arab and Kurdish fighters were...

Thousands of U.S.-backed fighters opened a major new front in Syria's war, launching an offensive to drive Islamic State out of a swathe of northern Syria it uses as a logistics base and appearing to make swift initial battlefield advances. The operation, which began on Tuesday after weeks of...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Reuters)- The YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces backed by the U.S. air strikes advanced against Islamic State in the last tract of territory the group holds near the Turkish border on Wednesday, taking 15 villages near Manbij city, a monitor group and activists said. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 civilians killed Wednesday in suspected Russian air strikes on al-Mashlab neighborhood of the ISIS-held city of Raqqa , local activists said.