(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...
(VOVWORLD) -A key Taliban commander Mullah Hemmatullah has been killed as government forces launched air strikes against the militant group's hideout in Nawbahar district of the southern Zabul
(VOVWORLD) - Libya's UN-backed government on Thursday declared a high state of security alert shortly after a deadly attack by Islamic State (IS) militants on a security checkpoint in...
(VOVWORLD) - Between 20,000 and 30,000 Islamic State fighters remain in Iraq and Syria, despite the jihadist group’s defeat and a halt in the flow of foreigners joining its...
(VOVWORLD) - Dozens of soldiers were feared dead after a Boko Haram attack on a military base in remote northeast Nigeria, security sources said Monday
(VOVWORLD) - Israel and Gaza militant groups agreed a ceasefire on Saturday, after Israel launched dozens of air strikes against the Palestinian enclave’s ruling Hamas group and gunmen fired more...
(VOVWORLD) -Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi Thursday ordered operations to hunt down Islamic State militants in central Iraq after recent attacks and abductions carried out by the terrorist group
(VOVWORLD) - The Islamic State (IS) militants killed 2 truck drivers and kidnapped 15 people in 2 separated attacks on Sunday in central Iraq, official sources reported on Monday
(VOVWORLD) -Philippine security forces on Sunday launched airstrikes and ground assaults on Islamist militants' lair in the Southern province of Maguindanao
(VOVWORLD) -24 militants loyal to Taliban were killed following military operations in the Afghanistan's southern province of Uruzgan, an official said Monday
(VOVWORLD) - The latest escalation of fighting between Israel and Palestinian Hamas has pushed Gaza to the brink of war, the UN’s Middle East envoy warned the Security Council on...
(VOVWORLD) - An Iraqi airstrike in eastern Syria on Sunday, supported by the US-led coalition, killed 36 Islamic State militants, including some of the group’s leaders
(VOVWORLD) - At least 16 were killed and 14 injured when explosives were detonated at a funeral for Sunni Muslim tribal fighters in the Iraqi town of Shirqat
(VOVWORLD) - Iraqi authorities on Monday discovered the remains of 158 bodies believed to belong to soldiers of Speicher Camp who were executed by Islamic State (ISIS) militants when the group...