ISIS has lost most of the land it once held in Iraq and Syria but hopes to cling to scraps of a self-declared caliphate, a US official said Wednesday. Since summer 2014, when ISIS was at its peak just ahead of the US-led war on the group, the extremists have lost 65 percent of the land...

A mayor who was handily defeated in his bid for a sixth two-year term said Wednesday that he believes his loss was due to his support for a plan to bring refugees from Syria and Iraq to the economically depressed Vermont city. Rutland Mayor Christopher Louras lost Tuesday's four-way race to...

(Spiegel)- On a cool morning, an elderly man is standing at his espresso machine on a street in eastern Aleppo. It's shortly after 8 a.m., and this part of the city -- destroyed in the war and reconquered by the regime in December -- is waking up. Green grocers arrive and set out their boxes of...

U.S. aid group Mercy Corps said Tuesday that the Turkish government had revoked its permit, halting its work in the country helping Syrians. "Our hearts are broken by this turn of events, which comes after five years of cooperation with the government of Turkey and other local partners,"...