Syrian Kurdish-led forces said they had captured a town at the Turkish border from Islamic State on Monday, driving it away from the frontier in an advance backed by U.S.-led air strikes that has thrust deep into the jihadists' Syria stronghold, Reuters said. The capture of Tel Abyad by the...

U.S. and coalition forces launched 16 air strikes targeting Islamic State militants in nine Iraqi cities on Sunday, the U.S. military said. The Iraqi strikes destroyed Islamic State vehicles, buildings, tunnel systems, bunkers and weaponry near cities including Makhmur, Mosul, Ramadi, Sinjar...

  The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said Monday it had encircled the ISIS-controlled town of Tal Abyad, the nearest border town to the militant's de facto capital of Raqqa city, Reuters said. YPG spokesman Redur Xelil said the militia had surrounded the town along the Turkish border, pushing...

After four years living in the capital of Isil's caliphate, Hassan's life story reads like the plot of a James Bond film. But the scars on his body and the photos he carries of murdered friends show his ordeal is all too real. Hassan, who asks for his full name not to be used for fear of...