“Today the fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq was killed,” Trump wrote Friday night. “He was relentlessly hunted down by our intrepid warfighters. His miserable life was terminated, along with another ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has said that the head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Abdallah Maki ...

The aim is to head off a return to civil conflict that could complicate efforts to curb radical Islamist groups.

President Donald Trump on Friday night declared a fugitive leader of ISIS was "relentlessly hunted down" and killed. "Today ...

In northeast Syria, revelers took to the streets after the announcement of a breakthrough deal between the central government ...

The conflict poses a challenge for the new interim president as he tries to unify Syria and extend his authority over the ...

The mountains of northern Iraq have for years been a sanctuary for Kurdish militants fighting a decades-long insurgency ...

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia on Saturday declared an immediate ceasefire, two days after its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan called on fighters to lay down their arms and dissolve the ...

For almost five decades, Turkey has been at war with the PKK, founded by Ocalan in 1978. Much of the fighting has focused on the group’s desire to establish an independent Kurdish state in the ...