U.S.-backed militias have completely taken Syria's Raqqa from Daesh (ISIS), the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Tuesday. The fall of Raqqa city, where Daesh staged euphoric parades after its string of lightning victories in 2014, is a potent symbol of the extremist movement's...

Daesh (ISIS) claimed responsibility Monday for two rockets fired from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula into southern Israel. The strikes hit the Eshkol region close to the border late Sunday without causing injury or significant damage, the army said. The militant group claimed...

 Israel's military carried out an air strike on an anti-aircraft battery in Syria on Monday after it fired toward its planes, while vowing it sought no further escalation in the war-torn country. Israeli planes were on what the military described as a routine reconnaissance mission...

 A U.S.-backed Kurdish-led force battling the Islamic State group in Syria will be in control of Raqqa "within a few days" after attacking the last militant-held pocket of the city, a spokesman for the force said Monday. Mustafa Bali of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, or...