(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,...

 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...