(Reuters) - U.S. and coalition partners conducted 13 air strikes against Islamic State militants in  Iraq  since early Wednesday, the U.S. military said. Five of the strikes in Iraq hit vehicles and Islamic State excavators near Kirkuk, and three air strikes struck...

(Reuters) - Iraqi security forces and militias fought their way into Saddam Hussein's home city of Tikrit on Wednesday, advancing from the north and south in their biggest counter-offensive so far against Islamic State militants. In a possible response to the fighting north of...

(Anadolu News Agency)- Local forces supported by the U.S.-led coalition airstrikes seized a key terrain from the Daesh terror group in northeast Syria, the U.S. said Tuesday.   The seizure now denies the terror group, also known as ISIL, access to its...

 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,...