An airstrike in the countryside of Kobanî, a Kurdish city in Syria’s Aleppo province, has killed nine civilians from the same family, including seven children, according to the UK-based Syrian ...

MURSITPINAR, Turkey -- Islamic State fighters were poised to capture a strategic Syrian town on the Turkish border, Turkey's president warned Tuesday, even as Kurdish forces battled to expel the ...

After MPs voted by 397 to 223 in favour of air strikes on Syria, RAF Tornado jets have already carried out the first attacks on the war-torn territory. Speculation has suggested these could be key in ...

Military operations against the Islamic State group in Syria are wrapping up and the last pocket of the jihadists' "caliphate" will be flushed out within a month, a top commander said. "The operation ...

A smooth integration of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces could build a stronger, more professional Syrian military ...

MURSITPINAR, Turkey In its battle for the Syrian town of Kobani, the Islamic State group enjoys a key advantage: a supply of weapons, ammunition and fighters shuttling between Syria and Iraq. The town ...

Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters and moderate Syrian rebels bombarded Islamic State positions in Kobani on Monday, but it was unclear if their arrival would turn the tide in the battle for the ...

Kobani is still holding out against ISIS, the top Kurdish official in the besieged Syria border city said Monday—but a senior U.S. defense official warned that American air strikes may not be enough ...

SURUC, Turkey, February 12 (UNHCR) - After spending his working life in the northern Syrian town of Kobani, Muhammed Ibrahim Shanun thought the hard times were over. "I was finally retired and hoped ...

It costs $500 to be smuggled out of Europe. That’s how much Juan Sheikh Muslem, a 27-year-old Syrian Kurdish refugee, paid to leave Spain and return to Turkey on September 25. Over the past two years, ...

BEIRUT -- American-led coalition warplanes destroyed four tanks belonging to the Islamic State group in eastern Syria on Friday, the U.S. military said, targeting the militants in a key oil-producing ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. aircraft carried out 18 strikes on Islamic State positions near the besieged Syrian border town of Kobani and five strikes against the group in Iraq on Tuesday and ...