Iraqi Border

The U.S. believes the attack that killed three U.S. troops on the JordanianSyrian border has the "footprints" of Iranbacked Iraqi militia Kataib Hezbollah, the Pentagon said. Who

Turkey banned Syrian, Yemeni and Iraqi citizens from flights to Belarus' capital Minsk on Friday, potentially closing off one of the routes used by migrants that the EU says have been flown in by Belarus to create a deliberate humanitarian crisis.

An air strike killed a commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards at the Iraq-Syria border sometime between Saturday and Sunday, Iraqi security and local militia officials said on Monday.

An explosion near the Jraischan border crossing between Iraq and Kuwaiti on Monday evening targeted a convoy carrying equipment for US forces, three Iraqi security forces told Reuters.

Hareth Najem fled ISIS's last enclave in eastern Syria wounded and alone. The Iraqi orphan's family had died two years earlier in air strikes across the border in al-Qaim region.

The ISIS has killed 41 US-backed fighters in Syria battling to oust the jihadists from their eastern holdout of Hajin on the Iraqi border, a war monitor said Saturday.

Iraqi forces announced the launch of a major operation on Thursday to flush remaining ISIS fighters out of the western desert near the border with Syria.

Syrian and Iraqi forces closing in on the last scraps of ISIS' caliphate straddling the remote border area between the two countries have already witnessed the jihadists' likely response.

Iraqi security forces and paramilitary units on Tuesday seized a village in one of the last pockets of territory controlled by the ISIS group in the vast western province of Anbar, bordering Syria.

Iraqi forces on Saturday captured a desert outpost of the ISIS group near the Syrian border in preparation for a drive up the Euphrates Valley towards the frontier, commanders said.

Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi held talks on Thursday with visiting Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem about securing their common border, an official Iraqi statement said, after a partial retreat by ISIS terrorists.

Iranian security forces killed three militants linked to ISIS in a city close to the Iraqi border on Tuesday, confiscating a weapons cache and belts armed with explosives, a senior official said.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov today hosted Turkey's pro-Kurdish party leader Selahattin Demirtas for talks on the Syrian conflict and Moscow's potential support for Kurdish groups fighting ISIS.

The Islamic State (IS) group lost around 14 per cent of its territory in 2015, while Syria's Kurds almost tripled the land they control, thinktank IHS Jane's said on Monday.

Iraq claimed today to have struck a convoy carrying Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an air raid near the Syrian border but said his fate was unknown.

The U.S. believes the attack that killed three U.S. troops on the JordanianSyrian border has the "footprints" of Iranbacked Iraqi militia Kataib Hezbollah, the Pentagon said. Who

Turkey banned Syrian, Yemeni and Iraqi citizens from flights to Belarus' capital Minsk on Friday, potentially closing off one of the routes used by migrants that the EU says have been flown in by Belarus to create a deliberate humanitarian crisis.

An air strike killed a commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards at the Iraq-Syria border sometime between Saturday and Sunday, Iraqi security and local militia officials said on Monday.

An explosion near the Jraischan border crossing between Iraq and Kuwaiti on Monday evening targeted a convoy carrying equipment for US forces, three Iraqi security forces told Reuters.

Hareth Najem fled ISIS's last enclave in eastern Syria wounded and alone. The Iraqi orphan's family had died two years earlier in air strikes across the border in al-Qaim region.

The ISIS has killed 41 US-backed fighters in Syria battling to oust the jihadists from their eastern holdout of Hajin on the Iraqi border, a war monitor said Saturday.

Iraqi forces announced the launch of a major operation on Thursday to flush remaining ISIS fighters out of the western desert near the border with Syria.

Syrian and Iraqi forces closing in on the last scraps of ISIS' caliphate straddling the remote border area between the two countries have already witnessed the jihadists' likely response.

Iraqi security forces and paramilitary units on Tuesday seized a village in one of the last pockets of territory controlled by the ISIS group in the vast western province of Anbar, bordering Syria.

Iraqi forces on Saturday captured a desert outpost of the ISIS group near the Syrian border in preparation for a drive up the Euphrates Valley towards the frontier, commanders said.

Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi held talks on Thursday with visiting Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem about securing their common border, an official Iraqi statement said, after a partial retreat by ISIS terrorists.

Iranian security forces killed three militants linked to ISIS in a city close to the Iraqi border on Tuesday, confiscating a weapons cache and belts armed with explosives, a senior official said.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov today hosted Turkey's pro-Kurdish party leader Selahattin Demirtas for talks on the Syrian conflict and Moscow's potential support for Kurdish groups fighting ISIS.

The Islamic State (IS) group lost around 14 per cent of its territory in 2015, while Syria's Kurds almost tripled the land they control, thinktank IHS Jane's said on Monday.

Iraq claimed today to have struck a convoy carrying Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an air raid near the Syrian border but said his fate was unknown.