(Reuters) -  Iraq  needs more airstrikes to dislodge Islamic State militants from Tikrit, senior officials said on Monday, as the campaign to retake Saddam Hussein's home city stalled for a fourth day due to homemade bombs and booby traps. Iraqi security forces and mainly...

 U.S.-led coalition jets struck Islamic State positions in northeast  Syria  for the second day in a row, in an area where the militants are battling Kurdish forces, a Kurdish official and a group monitoring the war said on Saturday. The Kurdish YPG militia, which has...

(Reuters) -  Iraq i Kurdish authorities said on Saturday they had evidence that Islamic State had used chlorine gas as a chemical weapon against their peshmerga fighters in northern Iraq in January. The Security Council of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region said in a...

Four peop le , including 2  children, have been killed on Friday in  Syrian  regime's air strikes on  embattled city of  Douma  northeast of Damascus, local coordination said.   Douma coordination said Bashar al-Assad's air...