The Syrian military and the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces have announced sweeping gains against the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) in the last of its major hideouts in eastern Syria.

Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani met with the new incoming commander of the anti-ISIS mission. The meeting took place after the new commander, Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Lambert arrived in Iraq to take up his post leading Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve, the coalition established by the US in 2014 to fight ISIS.

A man who once was in a group that chanted "death to America" now shakes the hand of the leader of the same country.

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The United States Department of State issues periodic travel advisories for countries across the globe, and it has just issued one advisory in its most severe category. The State Department has four levels of travel advisories,

Oumaima Chouay, who fled her home in Montreal nearly a decade ago to join ISIS in Syria, is the first person in Canada convicted for providing family support to a terrorist entity as a spouse.

An Evangelical pastor and roughly 20 of his family members were killed over the weekend in Syria in what church officials described as a targeted massacre.

US Special Envoy to Syria Ambassador Thomas J. Barrack has been under a spotlight in the last two weeks as US policy continues to face challenges.