MIDDLE Eastern leaders and their Western allies have long warned that Islamic State (IS) could exploit the fall of the Assad ...

U.S.-backed forces celebrate defeat of ISIS in Raqqa 02:00. BEIRUT -- The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (), responsible for some of the worst atrocities perpetrated against civilians in recent ...

Between October 2016 and October 2017 — from the beginning of the campaign for Mosul until the end of that for Raqqa — the U.S.-led coalition dropped 46,683 air-released munitions in Iraq and ...

It retreated from Mosul, its last urban center in Iraq, in July 2017. With the loss of Raqqa, the Islamic State’s remaining areas of concentration are mostly in Syria’s Deir al-Zour and Iraq ...

BEIRUT -- Even as internationally backed forces chip away at ISIS-held territory in Syria, Iraq and Libya, the militants have demonstrated a stubborn resilience this week in the face of recent ...

Raqqa is the last city of any consequence still held by Islamic State in either Syria or Iraq. But ISIS’ de facto capital is now surrounded.

On Tuesday, conflicting reports emerged from Raqqa, the eastern Syrian city that has served as the de-facto capital of the Islamic State militant group's self-styled caliphate since 2014.

Iraq's Ministry for Migration and Displacement said last week that 700,000 have been displaced from western Mosul alone. RAQQA 2014 -- ISIS was a presence in Raqqa since 2013 but consolidated its ...

Germany's federal prosecutor's office has submitted a new arrest warrant based on terrorism allegations for a Syrian man who ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is planning to cancel his attendance at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) ...

U.S. forces have pulled out of two more bases in northeastern Syria, visiting Reuters reporters found, accelerating a troop ...

The Islamic State (IS) is reportedly trying to exploit the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime to stage a comeback in Syria and neighbouring Iraq.