Iraq's special forces troops have surrounded Fallujah ahead of an operation to retake the Islamic State-held city west of Baghdad.
The Iraqi government teamed up...
Militants from the Islamic State group have seized a string of villages from Syrian rebels near the Turkish border.
The rapid advances forced the evacuation...
The Syrian president has assured Russia's Vladimir Putin of Damascus's commitment to a Russia-US proposed truce.
However, a spokesman for a Saudi-backed alliance of Syrian...
Tunisia’s defence minister has visited an anti-jihadi fence that is being built on the country’s border with Libya to stop Islamist militants from entering...
Syrian foreign minister Walid al-Moallem has warned that foreign ground troops entering Syria would “return home in wooden coffins”.
His comments came after Saudi Arabia...
Air raids on two villages in eastern Syria have killed at least 40 people and wounded scores more, according to opposition activists.
The Britain-based Syrian...
