Around 95 captives have escaped an Islamic State-run prison in northern Syria , a group monitoring the war said on Tuesday, saying the escapees included about 30 Kurdish fighters. The jailbreak happened in the town of al-Bab, 30 km (20 miles) south of the Turkish frontier,...

 A young German woman fighting alongside Kurdish forces in Syria was killed over the weekend in clashes with Islamic State fighters, Kurdish officials and a Turkey-based communist group said on Monday. The Kurdish forces, backed by U.S. air strikes and local rebel fighters,...

(Reuters) - Kurdish forces drove Islamic State militants back from the oil-rich city of Kirkuk in northern  Iraq  on Monday, in an attack which was backed by heavy air strikes from a U.S.-led coalition. Speaking to a local television channel near the frontline, Kirkuk...

(Reuters) - Warplanes from Libya's internationally recognized government on Monday attacked the last functioning airport in Tripoli, the capital controlled by a rival administration, officials said. Extending a series of tit-for-tat strikes, the attack coincided with the...