Damascus, Sep 20 (IANS) Syrian forces Saturday started a wide-scale offensive on a key rebel-held Syrian city northeast of the capital Damascus. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the Syrian Air Force carried out eight airstrikes on Adra and the nearby Tal Kurdi,...

(Reuters) - Turkish intelligence agents brought 46 hostages seized by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq back to Turkey on Saturday after more than three months in captivity, in what President Tayyip Erdogan described as a covert rescue operation. Security sources told...

(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday that Iran had a role to play in a global coalition to tackle Islamic State militants who have seized swaths of Iraq and Syria and proclaimed a caliphate in the heart of the Middle East. "The coalition required to...

By Oliver Holmes and Alexandria Sage BAGHDAD/PARIS (Reuters) - French jets struck a suspected Islamic State target in Iraq for the first time on Friday, expanding a U.S.-led military campaign against militants who have seized a third of the country and also control...