Jabhat al-Nusra

If, as cliché has it, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, isn't the recent flurry of diplomatic activity aimed at ...

the Syrian war involves numerous actors, dozens of seemingly contradictory alliances and rapidly changing dynamics. But while the ...

Invoking the need for joint action after the attacks in Paris, foreign ministers of nearly 20 nations agreed ...

What started as a civil war in Syria nearly five years ago has now evolved into an international ...

Islamic State militants invaded Iraq's west almost a year ago and overran the nation's second-largest city in June, ...

Lebanese authorities detained a woman and young boy believed to be the wife and son of the reclusive ...

During a key battle in the rugged mountains of a northern province earlier this month, U.S.-backed Syrian rebels ...

America's top military leader arrived in Iraq on Saturday on a previously unannounced visit, his first since a ...

The Pentagon warned Congress on Thursday that the long, drawn-out military campaign against Islamic State militants is just ...

US-led coalition airstrikes against the Islamic State group and other extremists in Syria have killed more than 860 ...

Islamic State group extremists lined up and shot dead at least 50 Iraqi tribesmen, women and children Sunday, ...

Dozens of Iraq's Kurdish peshmerga fighters will fly to Turkey on Tuesday and from there cross into the ...

Lawmakers in Iraq's largely autonomous Kurdish region Wednesday authorized peshmerga forces to go to neighboring Syria and help ...

Syrian President Bashar Assad is taking advantage of the US-led coalition's war against the Islamic State group to ...

Islamic State group fighters seized at least one cache of weapons airdropped by U.S.-led coalition forces that were ...

In a period of about six weeks spanning August and September 2014, President Obama dramatically revamped his Middle ...

The Kurds of Syria and Iraq have become a major focal point in the war against the Islamic ...

Intensified U.S.-led airstrikes and a determined Kurdish military force on the ground appear to have had some success ...

It may be less punchy than previous nicknames for U.S. conflicts in the Middle East—remember Operation Desert Storm ...

President Barack Obama and military chiefs from more than 20 nations gathered Tuesday in a show of strength ...

"In London we're very, very vigilant and very, very concerned," said London Mayor Boris Johnson.

On the western edge of Iraq's capital, Islamic State group militants battle government forces and exchange mortar fire, ...

The barrage of U.S. cruise missiles last month aimed at a Syrian terroristcell killed just one or two ...

After two months, the U.S.-led aerial campaign in Iraq has hardly dented the core of the Islamic State ...

In his speech on Sept. 10 President Obama characterized the Islamic State as a terrorist group. There were ...