The United States said the offensive to retake the Syrian city of Raqqa from the Islamic State must include locally based fighters at the forefront of the campaign, after an…
Government forces alongside Kurdish Peshmerga targeted the Islamic State in the eastern districts of the city of Mosul as they advanced as part of their wider operation to recapture the…
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi released a recorded statement, in which he expressed confidence in victory, in his first message after US-backed Iraqi forces started an offensive to recapture…
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, speaking at the Qayyara military air base south of the city of Mosul, said that the Iraqi forces were trying to close off all escape routes…
As the battles raging against the Islamic State-ruled stronghold of Mosul, Western-backed forces continue to liberate towns and villages surrounding the embattled city. Among the towns and villages, Christians who…
Turkish deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said his country wants an operation to capture the Islamic State-held city of Raqqa, the extreme-Muslim group's main stronghold in Syria, to start immediate…
US Defense Secretary Ash Carter said, during a joint-press conference with his French counterpart in Paris, that Washington expects the campaigns against the extreme Muslim organization in both Mosul and…
Turkey has troops at the Iraqi base of Bashiqa, where it is training Iraqi Kurdish 'Peshmerga' and Sunni Muslim fighters. The main reason behind Ankara's demanded involvement in the battle…
Backed by air support, Iraqi and Kurdish 'Peshmerga' forces continue to make gains surrounding the city of Mosul, as part of a wider operation to recapture the city from the…
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said his country is prepared to "take measures" in its eastern neighbor because it was not satisfied by promises from Washington and Baghdad that Kurdish…