Iraqi troops entered the Karama district of the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul yesterday, their first advance into the city

Syria's regime and rebels were locked in fierce clashes yesterday on the western edges of Aleppo, where 38 civilians have been

Arab coalition warplanes bombed a security complex near the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah, killing 60 people including inmates of a prison on the site, a regional official, relatives and medical sources said yesterday.

A Palestinian attacked Israeli troops with his car and then with a knife in the occupied West Bank before being shot and seriously

At least 17 civilians were killed yesterday in Yemen's southwestern province of Taiz by a Saudi-led coalition air strike that struck

Fresh fighting shook Aleppo yesterday as rebels battled to break a siege of the city by the Syrian regime, accused by

Iraqi Shiia militias yesterday said they had launched an offensive towards the west of Mosul, an operation that would tighten the noose around Islamic

Azerbaijani security services have killed two men suspected of plotting "terrorist attacks" in the secular ex-Soviet country with a mainly

Yemeni rebels have launched one of their longest-range strikes against Saudi Arabia, firing a ballistic missile that was shot down near

Syrian rebels yesterday launched a major assault aimed at breaking a months-long siege of opposition-held districts of Aleppo, as regime ally Russia

Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region plans to renew its push for independence once the city of Mosul is retaken from Islamic State group

Iraqi Shia militias backed by Iran yesterday said they would soon join the fight against Islamic State on a new front west of Mosul, a

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said yesterday his country could join naval exercises with Japan, but repeated

Two top al-Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan were killed in a US drone attack, the nation's spy agency confirmed

The Libyan navy said yesterday that almost 100 migrants were missing after their Europe-bound boat sank off the

Islamic State militants have in recent days executed dozens of prisoners taken from villages In Mosul, Iraq.

Militants linked to Islamic State jihadists abducted and killed around 30 civilians, including children, in central Afghanistan, officials said yesterday, raising concerns about the group's expanding presence beyond its eastern stronghold.

At least seven children were among 22 civilians killed in air strikes that hit a school and the surrounding area in

Islamic State group fighters were shaving their beards and changing hideouts in Mosul, residents said, as Iraqi forces

Unidentified gunmen killed two Saudi policemen in the mainly Shia eastern city of Dammam early on Tuesday, authorities in the