DERIK, Syria (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - While illegally crossing the Iraqi-Syrian border, Canadian Peter Douglas was adamant that his incursion was for humanitarian reasons - to help the people of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military will fight Islamic State in Syria "as long as they want to fight," Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Monday, describing a longer-term role for U.S. troops ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — U.S. and Turkish plans to create an “Islamic State-free zone” in Syria along the Turkish border could escalate the conflict between Turkey and Kurdish fighters in Syria and Iraq. With ...

Kurdish deputy prime minister urges U.S. leaders to remain engaged in Iraq While Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel visited Baghdad to meet with Iraq's new prime minister, Kurdish Deputy Prime Minister ...

DENVER (AP) — The bodies of two young Americans who died fighting the Islamic State group in Syria were returned to their sobbing families on Friday in simple, gray caskets that were pulled from an ...

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Key Arab allies promised Thursday to "do their share" to fight Islamic State militants, but NATO member Turkey refused to join in, signaling the struggle the U.S. faces in ...

Quoting the Koran in a 2006 email, Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad wrote that “those who believe” should “fight in the Cause of Allah.” Shahzad expressed anger over the cartoon drawings of Mohammed ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Turkish jets struck camps belonging to Kurdish militants in northern Iraq Friday and Saturday in what were the first strikes since a peace deal was announced in 2013. The strikes in ...

DENVER (AP) — Three young men who never joined the U.S. military but died fighting the Islamic State group in Syria will return home Friday to military-style honors as their families and a congressman ...