Bassem Mroue, The Associated Press


  • Iraqi Kurds ask Kurdish Workers Party to ‘withdraw’
    Iraqi Kurds ask Kurdish Workers Party to ‘withdraw’

    Iraq’s Kurdish regional government called on the Kurdish Worker’s Party to “withdraw” from Iraq’s Kurdish territory Saturday to prevent civilian deaths amid a campaign of Turkish airstrikes targeting the group.

  • U.S., Turkey aim for IS-free zone in northern Syria
    U.S., Turkey aim for IS-free zone in northern Syria

    BEIRUT (AP) — The United States and Turkey are finalizing plans for a military campaign to push the Islamic State group out of a strip of Syrian territory along the Turkish border, a move that would further embroil Turkey in Syria’s civil war and set

  • U.S.-led airdrops shower leaflets over Islamic State territory
    U.S.-led airdrops shower leaflets over Islamic State territory

    A U.S.-led coalition dropped new leaflets over the de facto capital of the Islamic State group in Syria, promising those below that “freedom will come” to the region, activists said Sunday.

  • IS offers a mix of brutality, charity during Ramadan
    IS offers a mix of brutality, charity during Ramadan

    During the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the Islamic State group is showing two faces to the millions who live under its rule in Iraq and Syria

  • Syrian troops repel militants attack on Aleppo neighborhood
    Syrian troops repel militants attack on Aleppo neighborhood

    Syrian troops and pro-government gunmen repelled on Tuesday an offensive by rebels and Muslim militants on a neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo while opposition activists claimed that the army carried out a chlorine gas attack in another part of the city, activists and state media said.

  • Syrian troops and Hezbollah besiege border mountain resort
    Syrian troops and Hezbollah besiege border mountain resort

    Syrian elite forces backed by Hezbollah fighters besieged a rebel-held mountain resort near the border with Lebanon on Saturday under the cover of intense airstrikes by Syria’s air forces, activists and official media outlets reported.

  • Syria’s Kurds warn Turkey not to intervene militarily
    Syria’s Kurds warn Turkey not to intervene militarily

    yria’s main Kurdish party warned Turkey on Wednesday that any military intervention would threaten international peace and said the country’s main Kurdish militia is ready to face any “aggression.”

  • Kurdish fighters battle IS militants in northern Syrian town
    Kurdish fighters battle IS militants in northern Syrian town

    Kurdish fighters in Syria besieged pockets of Islamic State extremists in the northern border town of Kobani on Friday, a day after the militants managed to push into the strategic town in a major onslaught, setting off clashes that have so far killed more than 100 civilians, activists said.

  • Islamic State group storms northeast Syrian city of Hassakeh
    Islamic State group storms northeast Syrian city of Hassakeh

    Islamic State militants in Syria stormed government-held neighborhoods in the predominantly Kurdish northeastern city of Hassakeh on Thursday morning, capturing several areas of the city.

  • Syrian Kurds take town, base near Islamic State stronghold
    Syrian Kurds take town, base near Islamic State stronghold

    Syrian Kurdish fighters and their allies on Tuesday captured a town once held by the Islamic State group, inching closer to the main IS stronghold in Syria and the de facto capital of the militants’ self-proclaimed caliphate.