(VOVWORLD) - US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that US-backed forces in Syria have retaken 100 percent of the territory once held by Islamic State militants
(VOVWORLD) - Iraq has dismantled the biggest Islamic State (IS) cell in the country’s western province of Anbar and captured 186 militants, the Iraqi Ministry of Interior said
(VOVWORLD) - US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he expected a formal announcement as early as next week that the coalition fighting Islamic State militants has reclaimed all of the...
(VOVWORLD) -Another round of peace talks between the US and Afghanistan's Taliban is tentatively set for February 25, a Qatari foreign ministry official said Sunday after a draft agreement was...
(VOVWORLD) - Dozens of Afghan security personnel were killed by Taliban militants who overran a military intelligence base near Kabul, officials have confirmed. At least 43 people were killed and 54 injured...
(VOVWORLD) - At least 18 people were killed and 30 injured when a car bomb was detonated at a military base and police training center in southern Afghanistan on Monday
(VOVWORLD) - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday that although the United States is withdrawing its forces from Syria, it remains committed to fighting Islamic State militants and preventing...
(VOVWORLD) - US troops will not leave north-eastern Syria until Islamic State militants are defeated and US-allied Kurdish fighters protected, national security adviser John Bolton said on Sunday
(VOVWORLD) -The Somali National Army (SNA) on Sunday killed 30 al-Shabab militants, including two foreign nationals, in the southern town of Jilib, an official said
(VOVWORLD) - An hours-long gun and suicide attack on a Kabul government compound killed at least 43 people, the health ministry said on Tuesday
(VOVWORLD) - Security is high in Barcelona following a US warning of the risk of a terror attack during the Christmas and New Year's holidays
(VOVWORLD) - Anti-government militants abducted 40 truck drivers in Afghanistan's northern Samangan province on Sunday, police said
(VOVWORLD) - Russia is calling on countries not to take advantage of Afghanistan for political purposes and stresses the importance of protecting Afghanistan’s territory
(VOVWORLD) - Iraqi security forces on Saturday began a large-scale security operation to clear areas in western Iraq from Islamic State (ISIS) militants
(VOVWORLD) -Islamic State (IS) militants have recaptured all areas previously lost to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in eastern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Sunday
(VOVWORLD) - The leaders of Turkey, Russia, France, and Germany on Saturday underlined the importance of a lasting ceasefire in Syria and the need to continue fighting militants, while calling for...
(VOVWORLD) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that US President Donald Trump listened to him and was keen to improve battered US-Russia ties despite the complicated domestic political...
(VOVWORLD) - The US on Thursday released a new counterterrorism strategy which describes radical Islamist terrorist groups as the pre-eminent terrorist threat to the US and to US interests abroad
(VOVWORLD) - A statement issued at the end of the summit in Iran's capital Tehran on Friday underscored the significance of political solution to the Syrian conflict
(VOVWORLD) - The Islamic State (ISIS) is seeking alternative sources of finance, after its revenue from the sale of oil and collection of taxes from the population in Syria and Iraq shrunk...