At least 15 people, including 8 children, were killed on Saturday in barrel bomb attacks on al-Hamidiyya neighborhood in the northeastern city of Deir Ezzor, activists said. 8 children, mostly brothers, and a women were among the casualties of the Syrian regime airstrikes on the rebel-held...

A convoy of Shiite Muslim militia and Iraqi army forces set out from a base near Ramadi on Saturday toward areas held by ISIS, an eyewitness and a local official said. Pro-government forces are seeking to retake the capital of the sprawling western province of Anbar after ISIS overran it last...

U.S.-led forces conducted 15 air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq since Thursday, concentrating on targets near Ramadi, the city that recently fell to the insurgents, the U.S. military said on Friday. In the same period, the forces conducted five air strikes in Syria, hitting...

Almost a year after Islamic State's shock capture of Mosul, Iraq's second city, the black flags of the jihadis have been raised over Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province to the west of Baghdad, seat of Iraq’s increasingly theoretical central government. Nobody talks of Mosul or recapturing...