MURSITPINAR Turkey (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces launched air strikes on Islamic State fighters who are besieging a Kurdish town near the Syrian border with Turkey on Wednesday, Kurdish sources in the town and a monitoring group said, a rare daylight coalition attack. A Reuters...

ARBIL Iraq/MURSITPINAR Turkey (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish troops drove Islamic State fighters from a strategic border crossing with Syria on Tuesday and won the support of members of a major Sunni tribe, in one of the biggest successes since U.S. forces began bombing the Islamists. The...

By Esra Kaymak Avci “Social and perceived discrimination” is the reason why young people from Europe are going overseas to join dangerous extremist groups like the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. This is according to a Europe-based researcher who claims...

Islamic State insurgents are advancing on a tomb in northern Syria regarded by Turkey as sovereign territory and guarded by Turkish soldiers, Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said on Tuesday, Reuters said. Ankara sees the tomb of Suleyman Shah, grandfather of the founder of the...