The Islamic State (IS) militants on Thursday advanced and captured parts of a strategic town in Syria's eastern province of Deir al-Zour in a bid to reach the Syrian airbase in that oil-rich province, a monitoring group reported.
The Syrian troops on Tuesday killed tens of rebels in the countryside of central province of Homs near the Syrian-Lebanese borders, the state news agency reported.
A Cairo Court for Urgent Matters designated on Sunday Islamic State (IS) organization, also known as Daesh, as a terror group, official news agency MENA reported.
Syria's Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi on Thursday slammed the U.S. State Department statement that condemned the Syrian airstrikes against the northern province of al-Raqqa, saying the statement contains fabricated accusations, according to the official SANA news agency.
The Islamic State (IS) militants stoned to death two young men in Syria's eastern province of Deir al-Zour on charges of having "unlawful" sexual intercourse with other males, a monitoring group reported Tuesday.
The Islamic State (IS) militants on Sunday downed a Syrian war jet over the country's eastern province of Deir al-Zour, the first war jet the terror group has managed to shoot down since it had captured large swathes of land in that oil-rich province, a monitoring group reported.
The Syrian troops on Thursday killed tens of "terrorists" in the countryside of the predominantly Kurdish city of Ayn al-Arab, also known as Kobane, in northern Syria, according to the state news agency SANA.
At least 20 fighters of the al- Qaida-linked Nusra Front were killed and 30 others wounded Wednesday by the Syrian troops in a rugged region north of the capital Damascus, the pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV reported.
Iraqi Interior Ministry confirmed Sunday that the Islamic State (IS) top leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was injured in a previous air strike, which also killed several senior leaders of the extremist group, an official Iraqi television reported.
The Islamic State (IS) militant group executed a total of 17 Syrians over the past three days in the country's eastern province of Deir al-Zour, a monitoring group reported late on Wednesday.
The entry of Peshmerga fighters from Iraq to battle the Islamic State (IS) militant group in Syria 's predominantly Kurdish city of Ayn al-Arab aims at guaranteeing the interests of Turkey in that Kurdish region, analysts say.
At least 11 security members were killed and some 25 others wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in Iraq's central Babil province, a provincial security source said on Monday.
As many as 50 fighters of the Islamic State (IS) terror group were either killed or injured on Sunday during fresh clashes with the Kurdish fighters in Syria's predominantly Kurdish city of Ayn al-Arab on the Syrian-Turkish borders, according to the pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV.
Iraqi security forces and allied tribal fighters rebuffed an attack by Islamic State (IS) militants in a town near the Iraqi capital Baghdad, but were forced to withdraw from another embattled town after two days of fierce clashes in the country's western province of Anbar, security sources said on Thursday.
The Islamic State (IS) militants captured one of the weapons shipments airdropped by the United States to the Kurdish fighters of the People Protection Units (YPG) in the city of Ayn al-Arab in northern Syria, a monitoring group said Tuesday.
About 12 Shiite Houthi gunmen were killed when suspected al-Qaida suicide attack targeted their military position in southeastern province of al-Bayda on Monday evening, a tribal chief told Xinhua.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday hailed Iraqi lawmakers' approving Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's nominees for the posts of defense and interior ministers as "a very positive step forward" in fighting the militant Islamic State (IS).
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