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When in Paris after the Charlie Hebdo attacks last January, I wrote a column suggesting that we all had to demonstrate a new toughness.

The Kurdish regional government in northern Iraq released a video Sunday purportedly showing the joint raid of a ...

BAGHDAD—Islamic State group fighters attempting to retake a town in northern Iraq held by Kurdish peshmerga forces have ...

MOUNT SINJAR, Iraq—The road to the battlefront plunges straight down the steep face of Mount Sinjar, whipped by ...

Kurdish Iraqi forces launched a major operation Wednesday to retake the militant-held town of Sinjar in northern Iraq, ...

The Islamic State group launched an attack Saturday on the Syrian border town of Kobani from Turkey — ...

Iraqi Kurdish forces will only stay in Syria "temporarily" to help reinforce fellow Kurds fighting to defend the ...

A vanguard force of Iraqi peshmerga troops entered the embattled Syrian border town of Kobani from Turkey on ...

Iraqi peshmerga troops were cheered Wednesday by fellow Kurds in southeastern Turkey as the fighters slowly made their ...

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

Fighters from the Islamic State group launched Saturday a new offensive on the northern Syrian town of Kobani ...

Lebanon announced on Thursday it will not accept any more refugees from neighboring war-torn Syria, except in what ...

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 ...

SURUC, Turkey—The shells were already roaring down on the Kurdish fighters from the hill above Kobani when more ...

The U.S.-led coalition ramped up its aerial bombardment of Islamic State positions in the Syrian border town of ...

As U.S. generals and Secretary of State John Kerry warn that a strategic Syrian border town could fall ...