The United States has yet to agree with Baghdad on crucial details governing the role of a new American special forces unit aimed at hunting Islamic State militants in Iraq, U.S. officials said, underlining the difficulties Washington faces dealing with Iraq's weakened leader. Defense Secretary...

President Francois Hollande visited France's aircraft carrier off the coast of Syria on Friday, while German lawmakers approved joining the intensifying fight against Islamic State jihadists. Three weeks to the day since IS gunmen caused carnage in Paris, Hollande was...

Reporting by Abdulhafiz al Jolani; Translation by Yusra Ahmed Arsal - (Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanese army backed with Shiite Hezbollah militia have renewed ground and missile attacks on border territory controlled by Nusra Front, hours after the al-Qaeda branch in Syria had delivered 16 army...

Ten Syrians linked to ISIS entered Thailand in October to attack Russian interests, Thai police said in a leaked document citing information from the Russian Federal Security Service. In the document, Special Branch police urged an intensification of security around "target areas that Russian...