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(Reuters) - U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq have killed three of the militant group's top leaders but not senior commander Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, U.S. officials said on Thursday. Among those killed was Abd al Basit, whom the officials described as the...

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s weeks-long siege of northwestern Mount Sinjar was broken Thursday after a successful operation of Iraqi Peshmerga, a top Kurdish security official said. Mount Sinjar was in the news recently when around 100,000 people, mostly...

Opposition forces killed 45 Syrian regime soldiers across the country, according to Syrian rebels on Thursday. A mine explosion killed 30 Syrian regime soldiers in Kasr Abo Samra village, located in eastern Hama city, west central Syria. The mines were previously planted by the...