SOUTH OF MOSUL, Iraq: U.S. Army Lt. Col. James Browning juggled phone calls on an overstuffed sofa in a small village south of Mosul. His counterparts in the...
MAKHMUR, Iraq: The sand berms and trenches that snake across northern Iraq stretch toward Syria, some accompanied by newly paved roads lit by street lamps and...
KOYA, Iraq: The main Kurdish insurgent group in Iran will keep up its guerrilla campaign against security forces “to protect and defend” Kurds living there,...
QARQASHAH, Iraq: A small unit of Kurdish peshmerga forces huddled in an abandoned home on the edge of Qarqashah, one of a dozen villages east of the Iraqi...
IRBIL, Iraq: Iraqi Kurdish forces say they have retaken five villages east of the Islamic State-held city of Mosul in an operation launched early...
DOHUK, Iraq: The walls and even the windows of Bahzad Farhan Murad’s office are covered with lists. They name the thousands of people who were killed or are...
KAWERGOSK CAMP, Iraq: Perwin Shamsaddeen Ali, a Syrian refugee living in a tent camp in northern Iraq, has been reduced to cooking one meal a day for her...
HARSHAM CAMP, Iraq: Daesh (ISIS) militants who stormed into the Iraqi town of Sinjar last year, massacring members of the Yazidi minority and forcing women...
ARTEMIVSK, Ukraine: After weeks of relentless fighting, the embattled Ukrainian rail hub of Debaltseve fell Wednesday to Russia-backed separatists, who...
KIEV: A cease-fire was declared in eastern Ukraine at a minute after midnight Sunday, kindling slender hopes of a reprieve from a conflict that has claimed...
LUHANSKE, Ukraine: Fierce fighting raged Friday in east Ukraine between government troops and Russian-backed separatists as the warring sides attempted to...
DONETSK, Ukraine: Artillery fire killed at least 12 civilians in the main rebel stronghold of Donetsk on Friday amid fierce fighting between pro-Russia...
DONETSK, Ukraine: Artillery fire in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk killed at least 12 civilians Friday afternoon, the city hall in the rebel stronghold said,...
MARYINKA, Ukraine: Artillery fire killed at least four people in an overnight attack on a residential area in eastern Ukraine, spurring more people to flee...
IZVARYNE, Ukraine: Thousands of Ukrainians in cars stuffed with belongings lined up Thursday at the eastern border to cross into Russia, with some saying they...