US-led coalition air strikes killed 26 civilians including 14 children in a holdout of the I.S. group in eastern Syria. A Britain-based war monitor said, twenty-six is family members including 14 children and 9 women were killed in coalition air strikes in the town of Hajin. It said coalition raids ...

The Syrian army says capital Damascus and its surroundings are fully secured as the troops cleared the last insurgent-held area around the capital of Islamic State fighters on Monday. In a televised statement, the army high command said Damascus and its surroundings including villages are ...

ISLAMABAD: Leading a delegation of senators mostly newly elected, the Chief Minister Baluchistan Mir Abdul Quddus Bizenjo called on the Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Parvez Khattak at the Pakhtunkhwa House, Islamabad Friday evening. PTI leaders Shah Mahmud Qurieshi, Asad Umar, Jahangir Tarin, ...

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has called for unity among Arab countries in the Gulf for the sake of regional stability and to root out the Islamic State group. Addressing a donor conference in Kuwait to support reconstruction efforts in Iraq, he said the rift between Qatar and its neighbours ...

KABUL: Middle-class Afghans turned militants have assisted the Islamic State group’s expansion from its stronghold in Afghanistan’s restive east to Kabul, analysts say, helping to make the capital one of the deadliest places in the country. IS has claimed nearly 20 attacks across Kabul ...

 In Iraq, government forces recaptured Hawija, one of the last strongholds of so-called Islamic State on Thursday. The area had been under the militant group's control since 2014.   

Balochistan Liberation Army senior Commander, identified as Abdul Rasool alias Ustad/Borjon/Boss, along with his group surrendered to security forces, according to Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR).The Baloch militants also surrendered their group’s weapons and ammunition.“The group ...

An Islamic State offshoot based near the Afghan-Pakistan border is expanding to new areas, recruiting fighters and widening the reach of attacks in the region, members of the movement and Afghan officials said.Some members of the so-called "Khorasan Province" of Islamic State claimed responsibility ...

Russia and Turkey have conducted joint airstrikes against the Islamic State group's stronghold in al-Bab area of Aleppo province.This was stated by a Russian Army's Lt. Gen. Sergei Rudskoi at a briefing in Moscow.He said nine Russian warplanes and eight Turkish jets took part in the operation in ...

BEIRUT: (APP) The Turkish army and its allies on Saturday entered the Islamic State group's bastion of Al-Bab in northern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said."They entered Al-Bab from the northwest after violent clashes with the militants as Turkish artillery ...