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By Jeremy Herb 10/24/16 08:30 AM EDT With Zach Montellaro OFFENSIVE ON MOSUL MARCHES ON AS CARTER DROPS IN: Defense Secretary Ash Carter flew into Iraq over a weekend to check on a swell of a Iraqi descent to retake Mosul (no warn given his scheduled...

BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the conflict in Syria, where fighting is still underway in Aleppo despite a cease-fire deal that was to allow opposition fighters and civilians to withdraw (all times local): 11:05 p.m. Syrian rebels say a cease-fire deal...

While Americans continue to be distracted by the discussion over Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, geopolitical tension around the proxy war in Syria has escalated to levels that could lead to regional warfare or open conflict between nuclear superpowers...

BEIRUT — Syria's military says the U.S.-led coalition carried out an airstrike on an eastern base that is surrounded by Islamic State militants, allowing the extremists to advance and potentially dealing a major blow to a shaky cease-fire. A U.S. military...

By James Miller | ( RFE/RL ) | – – We may be witnessing the end of the extremist group, the [so-called] Islamic State [group] (IS), as we know it. Over the weekend, the coalition of Turkish military soldiers and Syrian rebel groups, backed by a small...