(Reuters) Urban warfare is taking root in conflicts across the Middle East, with five times more civilians in Syria and Iraq killed in cities than in rural areas over
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(SyriaNews.media) The Syrian Democratic Forces captured the Briton known as “Jihadi Jack”, who joined the Islamic State in Syria in 2014, Qasioun News reported on Wednesday. The 21-year-old Jack
(Reuters) United Nations war crimes investigators said on Wednesday that intensified coalition air strikes supporting an assault by U.S.-backed forces on Islamic State’s stronghold of Raqqa
Qamishli (Reuters) Islamic State militants enslaved Noura Khalaf for three years, dragging her from her small Iraqi village across their territory in Syria. They bought and sold her five
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) The U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State militants in Mosul should not use the banned white phosphorus in its artillery strikes on the extremist
(Reuters) The Syrian army has made a sudden advance against Islamic State in the desert area west of Raqqa, a military media unit run by its ally Hezbollah said
Raqqa (SyriaNews.media) The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), on Tuesday, carried out air strikes and artillery shelling on areas, east of the city of Raqqa. Qasioun News reported that
Mosul (Reuters) Iraqi forces on Tuesday reported progress in the U.S.-backed campaign to dislodge Islamic State from Mosul, announcing the capture of a district just north the
Raqqa (SyriaNews.media) Syria’s state television announced in the following video that the supreme leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in air strikes
(Reuters) U.S.-backed Syrian militias advanced further into Islamic State’s Syrian stronghold of Raqqa from the east on Monday, reaching the walls of the Old City, a