Niger’s ruling military junta says that an ambush by a “group of criminals” killed at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the country’s border with Burkina Faso ...

That has irked Turkey, which supported the rebels now controlling Syria. Turkey considers the SDF to be an offshoot of the ...

Upholding security at the camp in Syria is seen as critical to prevent a resurgence of the Islamic State, but contractors don ...

A prison in Syria holds about 4,500 members of the Islamic State group who have been there for years without trial ...

Islamic State in the Greater Sahara militants attacked a military base in Niger, killing at least 46 soldiers. A tragic ...

Following the fall of the Assad regime in December the US conducted large scale airstrikes in the Syrian desert against IS positions. Likewise, the US has around 2,000 soldiers in northeast Syria ...

Security personnel of the former government have come in the thousands to so-called reconciliation centers to settle their affairs. Nabih Bulos is the Middle East bureau chief for the Los Angeles ...

"The door to negotiation with the (Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces) is currently open," Murhaf Abu Qasra told reporters. "If we have to use force, we will be ready." Last month, an official ...

At an abandoned border-crossing station on the Syrian side, an HTS soldier, dressed in well-worn fatigues, poked his head into the window. “Do you have any explosives?” he asked, before ...

The French judiciary has issued an arrest warrant for ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad on charges of complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity, an official said Tuesday. French Foreign ...