Local fighters and army forces in Yemen have wrested two military bases from Houthi forces overnight, residents and officials said, building on a week of gains against the country's dominant faction. The advances come a day after Yemen's government in exile declared the key...

The Islamic State group used poison gas in attacks against Kurdish-controlled areas of northeastern Syria in late June, a Syrian Kurdish militia and a group monitoring the Syrian conflict said on Saturday. The YPG militia said Islamic State had fired "makeshift chemical...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 civilians, including 5children and 6 women, have lost their lives in barrel bomb attacks on rebel-held Aleppo in the first day of Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, a monitoring group said on Friday. The Syrian Network...

Cemal Dede fled his home in a remote Turkmen village in Syria after warplanes from the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State bombed the house next door. He had no idea he wouldn't be coming back. Dede says the Kurdish YPG militia did not let his family of seven return to...