U.S.-backed fighters appeared closer to capturing Islamic State’s last pocket in eastern Syria on Tuesday, a victory that would bring the jihadists’ self-proclaimed caliphate to a bloody end. Dozens of trucks were visible moving along a road towards Baghouz, the village on the banks of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Five civilians killed Tuesday in fresh Syrian regime airstrikes on Khan Sheikhoun town in northern Idlib province, White Helmets agency said. A woman and a child were among the casualties, according to the rescuing group. The regime forces backed by Russia have...

Some 200 families are trapped in a shrinking area of Syria still controlled by Islamic State, whose forces are stopping some from fleeing, U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Tuesday. “Many of them (also) ...continue to be subjected to intensified air and ground-based strikes...

 Islamic State faces the total defeat of its self-proclaimed caliphate. This timeline chronicles its lightning rise, cruel reign and stubborn fall. ** 2004-11 - In the chaos following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, an al-Qaeda offshoot sets up there, changing its name in 2006 to...