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Russian warplanes bombed US-backed fighters in several small villages in northern Syria after they mistakenly thought Islamic State forces were ...

Twenty-six thousand Iraqis fled west Mosul in the 10 days since security forces launched a major push to retake it ...

UN aid chief Stephen O'Brien on Tuesday cancelled a visit to Yemen's third city Taez when shelling and a rebel ...

Much of the fighting for west Mosul will be at close quarters, but Iraq's battle against the Islamic State group ...

Several hundred civilians fled through the desert on Tuesday to escape fighting against jihadists in the Mosul area, reaching an ...

UN humanitarian aid chief Stephen O'Brien warned Monday in Yemen that the war-torn and impoverished country faces "serious risk of ...

Iraqi forces battling the Islamic State group in west Mosul reached the city's southernmost bridge Monday, a key step in ...

France is to send a contingent of counterterror forces to help the army in Niger after militants ambushed a military ...

A female reporter working for Iraqi Kurdish channel Rudaw was killed by the explosion of a roadside bomb Saturday during ...

The Iraqi air force struck members of the Islamic State group inside neighbouring Syria Friday, officials said, adding that the ...

Elite Iraqi forces on Friday entered a west Mosul neighbourhood for the first time since the start four months ago ...

Islamic State jihadists are forcing children and disabled people into explosives-laden trucks and making them drive at Iraqi security forces ...

There was still morning mist in the air when Iraq's Rapid Response units began their push to take Mosul airport ...

Yemeni government forces made gains around the Red Sea coastal town of Mokha in heavy fighting overnight as they rebuffed ...

Iraqi forces backed by jets, drones and gunships attacked Mosul airport Thursday, a key step in a renewed offensive against ...

US forces have been shot at and returned fire in the battle for the Iraqi city of Mosul, a coalition ...

Yemen's President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi said Wednesday that Saudi Arabia has earmarked $10 billion in aid for the reconstruction of ...

Iraqi forces readied on Wednesday for an assault on Mosul airport after blitzing jihadist positions in a renewed offensive to ...

Afghanistan is set to criminalise the practice of "bacha bazi" -- the sexual exploitation of boys -- with a slew ...

Yemeni rebels hit back at government forces advancing up the Red Sea coast killing a deputy army commander in a ...