ISIS killed 6 Kurdish Democratic Party fighters in northeastern province of Hasakah on Monday, activists said as Kurds and U.S.-led coalition have been intensifying aerial and ground bombardment to expel the hardline group from the north of war-torn country. Mahmoud al-Ahmed, activist, told...

Qatar has sent 1,000 ground troops to Yemen, Doha-based Al Jazeera television said, escalating Gulf Arab intervention in Yemen's war ahead of a planned offensive against Iranian-backed Houthis holding the capital Sanaa. Qatari pilots had already joined months of Saudi-led air strikes on...

 France's president says the country will send reconnaissance planes over Syria beginning Tuesday to help in the fight against ISIS. President Francois Hollande says terror attacks have been planned from Syria against several countries, including France. He said his responsibility is to...

A huge duststorm hit Syria's provinces of Idlib, Homs and Latakia on Monday amid forecast reports say it's the fiercest in decades, in time regime supporters say the storm comes in favor of ISIS fighters who took an oil-rich village in northern countryside of Homs. Activists have praised the...