U.S.-backed forces now have Islamic State (IS) militants surrounded in central Raqqa, a Syrian Kurdish commander said, but he predicted that driving the militants out could take up to four months.

ACCORDING TO ONE legend, the Kurds are descended from 400 virgins who were raped by devils on the way to King Solomon's court. Fatah Kavian, a member of the central committee of the anti-Khomeini ...

A boy emerges from a pit after exploring 1,500-year-old Byzantine tombs uncovered during reconstruction in war-damaged Maarat ...

A shooter opened fire inside a school in Austria’s second-biggest city Tuesday, killing nine people, authorities said. At ...

A former student opened fire at a school in Austria’s second-biggest city on Tuesday, killing nine people and wounding at least 12 others before taking his own life, ...

A contractor digging into the earth where the rubble of a destroyed house had been cleared away in northern Syria stumbled across a surprise: the remains of an underground Byzantine tomb complex ...

Iran says it executed nine militants of the Islamic State group detained after a 2018 attack. The Iranian judiciary's Mizan news agency announced the executions Tuesday. It described the militants ...

Coco Gauff became the first U.S. woman to win the French Open since Serena Williams in 2015.