A U.S.-backed force battling to oust the Islamic State group from its former Syrian stronghold Raqqa said Thursday that "victory is near" and would be declared in coming weeks. The Syrian Democratic Forces, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters, broke into Raqqa city in ...
Indian Home Affairs Minister Rajnath Singh reiterated Thursday that tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar residing in India are "not refugees but illegal immigrants." "The people who have entered into India from Myanmar are not Rohingya refugees. We have to understand this reality," ...
Russia, the only major power that has not called on Iraq's Kurds to cancel a referendum on independence next week, has swiftly become the top funder of Kurdish oil and gas deals, with as much as $4 billion pledged in less than a year, ...
When he saw his commander holding the severed head of one of his neighbors, teenage Islamist fighter Jalil knew it was time to escape from Marawi. Churches and homes had been ransacked, people had been shot or taken hostage, and now Philippine government troops, planes ...
The United States is pressuring the Iraqi Kurds and their regional government to abandon a planned referendum on independence. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert says the costs of going ahead with the vote are high, including for the Kurds. She says the planned referendum has ...
The battle for the Islamic State group's de-facto Syria capital, Raqqa, has reached its "final stages," the Syrian Democratic Forces said Wednesday, almost four months after the U.S.-backed force launched an assault on the self-proclaimed capital of the militant group. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces ...
Two men were arrested Wednesday over last week's London Underground terrorist attack in which 30 people were injured, bringing the total number of people in custody to five, police said. The men, aged 48 and 30, were arrested under anti-terrorism legislation in Newport in Wales, ...
The United States, Britain and other countries opposed to Syrian President Bashar Assad will not support the reconstruction of the country until there is a political transition "away from Assad," British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Monday. The "Friends of Syria" group, an alliance of ...
The Philippine military chief said Monday that three leaders of Islamic State-linked militants who besieged a southern city have been killed in months of fighting but two others, including one of Asia's most wanted terror suspects, were still alive and leading a final stand. Military ...
Syrian troops battling the Islamic State group crossed to the eastern bank of the Euphrates River in Deir el-Zour on Monday, threatening a potential standoff with the U.S.-backed forces operating there. The crossing came nearly two weeks after the Russia-backed Syrian troops breached a three-year ...
For more than 100 days, Catholic priest Teresito Soganub's life was threatened by every airstrike, gunshot and artillery bombardment that targeted his Islamic State group-aligned captors in the southern Philippines. When Soganub, 51, began talking Monday about his captivity following his rescue by Philippine troops ...
Kurds in Iraq are set to vote on independence in a Sept. 25 referendum, but the poll is more of a tool to pressure Baghdad than a step toward real secession, observers say. Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani announced the referendum in June and has ...
