The U.S. military said on Monday operations against Islamic State in Iraq over the past week led to the death of a non-U.S. coalition soldier and wounded two other non-U.S. personnel.

Analysts say priorities extend beyond anti-ISIL mission and include keeping leverage as Syria’s future takes shape.

The Turkish military killed 21 Kurdish militants in northern Syria and Iraq, the defence ministry said on Wednesday.

More than 100 combatants were killed over the last two days in northern Syria in fighting between Turkish-backed groups and Syrian Kurdish forces, a war monitor said on Sunday.Turkish-backed factions in northern Syria resumed their fight with the SDF at the same time as Islamist-led rebels were launching an offensive on November 27 that overthrew Syrian president Bashar al-Assad just 11 days later.

Days after five decades of totalitarian rule by the Assad family dynasty ended, I went to Damascus, Syria. Two decades earlier, in Iraq, I witnessed the United States-led invasion and, as a journalist,

Islamic State militants were already resurgent last year in parts of Syria and Iraq. Then in December, the Assad regime collapsed, furnishing them with fresh supplies of weapons from stocks abandoned by the Syrian army.

Nearly a month after his militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) shocked the world by ending the Assad family’s 53-year reign of power in Syria, the onetime detainee in a U.S military prison in Iraq is now the de facto head of state in Syria.

Amid an outcry for justice and accountability and threats online, a once-dominant group is feeling deep anxiety after the ouster of Syria’s dictator.

The Iraqi Prime Minister confirmed Iraq’s uncompromising support for the unity of Syria and its citizens' right to make their own decisions.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraqi authorities are preparing to repatriate over 500 nationals from the notorious al-Hol camp in northeast Syria (Rojava) housing people with links to the Islamic State (ISIS) in the coming days,

Syria’s long-ruling Baath party has frozen its activities after insurgents overthrew President Bashar Assad weeks ago

The announcement comes after Kurdish groups said they had launched a counteroffensive against Turkish forces that entered Syria and taken territory