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French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday threw his weight behind a planned Sahel force to fight jihadists on a lightning ...

Iraqi forces have recaptured a hospital and other medical facilities in west Mosul, further isolating Islamic State group holdouts in ...

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Mali on Sunday to consolidate Western backing for a regional anti-jihadist force, with France ...

Iraqi soldiers snap victorious "selfies" and pose with a captured Islamic State group flag at the Mosul mosque where jihadist ...

An Israeli warplane struck a Syrian army post on Friday, hours after stray fire from Syria's civil war hit the ...

The UN voiced alarm Friday at rising threats against civilians in Mosul suspected of ties to the Islamic State group ...

Iraq will declare victory in the eight-month battle to retake second city Mosul from jihadists in the "next few days," ...

Canada will continue to train Kurdish militia for another two years as part of the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic ...

The Iraqi military announced on Thursday that special forces had recaptured the iconic Mosul mosque where jihadist chief Abu Bakr ...

With snipers lurking on rooftops and bombs hidden in the rubble, rescue workers are risking their lives in a desperate ...

US-led coalition air strikes killed nearly 60 people at a Syrian prison run by the Islamic State group, a monitor ...

Iraqi forces on Monday were searching neighbourhoods of west Mosul they retook weeks ago after a surprise jihadist attack on ...

Fighters of so-called Islamic State (IS) have launched counter-attacks as they come under growing pressure from Iraqi forces in Mosul. ...

Devastated buildings, piles of rubble and putrid corpses of jihadists: apocalyptic scenes unfold in the Old City of Mosul where ...

Mali's government and armed groups which signed a 2015 peace deal have relaunched talks aimed at speeding up its implementation ...

A cholera outbreak in war-ravaged Yemen will probably have infected more than 300,000 people by September, up sharply from the ...

A suicide bomber blew himself up Friday among civilians fleeing the Old City of Mosul, where increasingly desperate jihadists are ...

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a town in western Iraq on Friday, killing at least eight civilians and ...

Two Russian warships and a submarine in the Mediterranean have fired missiles at Islamic State group targets in Syria, the ...

A US air strike has killed a regional Al-Qaeda leader and two associates in Yemen's Shabwa province, a jihadist stronghold ...