CENTCOM reports 22 operations against ISIS in Syria last month, killing 5 and capturing 19. The raids weakened ISIS’s ability ...

U.S. Soldiers with the 3rd Cavalry Regiment setup a landing zone for Marine Corps MV-22B tiltrotors to land at a location ...

Iraqi army commanders visit by helicopter a military base near a border crossing with Syria at Al-Qaim ANBAR (Reuters) -Iraq has officially reopened the Qaim border crossing with Syria for trade and ...

Large parts of Syria were once overrun by the terrorist group Islamic State. The country’s new government has just committed ...

The Oregon National Guard formally welcomed home Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 218th Field Artillery Regiment during a ...

President Donald Trump deserves credit for working to ensure the new Syrian government has a shot at stability and success, ...

On October 26, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) announced that it was withdrawing its fighters from Turkey as part of a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Backed by U.S. sanctions relief and Arab cooperation through Saudi Arabia and the UAE, Washington aims to tie Syria's ...

Aid needed by Iraqis threatens to overshadow those of Syrian refugees. — -- As militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) make their way from Mosul to other points in Iraq, the aid ...

UNITED NATIONS - Iraq's escalating violence can no longer be separated from the civil war in neighboring Syria because "the battlefields are merging," the U.N. envoy to Iraq warned Tuesday. Martin ...