Islamic state

Opposition activists say Syrian government troops battling the Islamic State group have crossed to the eastern bank of the Euphrates…

On a sweltering Washington summer day, President Donald Trump’s motorcade pulled up to the Pentagon for a meeting largely billed…

US President Donald Trump’s plans to step up air strikes on Islamist militants in Afghanistan risk increasing civilian casualties and…

Buses carrying evacuated Islamic State fighters reached Syria’s Deir al-Zor on Wednesday in return for releasing a Hezbollah prisoner, a…

Turkish police detained 25 suspected Islamic State militants in operations across Istanbul, the state-run Anadolu news agency said on Tuesday.…

Syrian government forces seized a final stretch of highway linking the eastern city of Deir al-Zor to the capital Damascus…

Iraqi officials say they are holding more than 1,300 foreign women and children, the families of Islamic State fighters, at…

The Syrian army and its allies recaptured an oilfield from Islamic State near the eastern city of Deir al-Zor on…

Hatf Saiful Rasul was 11 years old when he told his father, a convicted Islamic militant, that he wanted to…

Lebanon has identified the bodies of 10 of its soldiers found along the Syrian border in an area taken back…