U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday it might be possible for the Syrian government and rebel forces to cooperate against militants without Syrian President Bashar Assad having first left power. However, Kerry said it would be "exceedingly difficult" to achieve this if...

Ten Syrians linked to ISIS entered Thailand in October to attack Russian interests, Thai police said in a leaked document citing information from the Russian Federal Security Service. In the document, Special Branch police urged an intensification of security around "target areas that Russian...

 British Tornado jets struck oil fields in eastern Syria on Thursday that help finance the Islamic State group and Germany prepared to send reconnaissance aircraft to the Middle East as coalition forces stepped up efforts to fight the militants. The strikes at the Omar oil field came only...

The United States warned on Thursday of the need to find Syrian or Arab ground forces to take on Islamic State, saying the militant group would not be defeated by air strikes alone. "I think we know that without the ability to find some ground forces that are prepared to take on...