Iraq's U.S.-backed offensive against ISIS in western Mosul could displace up to 400,000 civilians and involve a siege in the densely populated old city, the United Nations' Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq said on Saturday. The military and security forces last month recaptured the eastern...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Five people, including four family members, were killed in Daraa province when regime warplanes hit the eastern and western countryside, activists said Saturday. Father, mother and two sons have lost their lives in the village of Om al-Mayathen as regime and Russia...

(The Independent)- Isis’ “business model” is failing as jihadis lose their grip on territory and the vital oil and tax revenue it brings, a new report has found. The so-called Islamic State is believed to be the richest terrorist group in the world, exploiting natural resources and...

Syrian warplanes carried out airstrikes in a besieged rebel-held district of Homs Saturday that killed at least two people, adding to a death toll of more than 20 in nearly two weeks of air raids, activists said. Al-Waer, the last rebel-held neighborhood in the western city of Homs, had...