The Kurdish fighters in Kobane may have formed an unlikely alliance with the Syrian regime, against a common enemy: ISIS.
Turkish President Erdogan said U.S.-led coalition airstrikes would not defeat ISIS in Kobane. He said ground troops are needed.
The Kurdish fighters in Kobane are battling ISIS and need Turkish military intervention, according to sources on the ground.
Turkey's parliament voted to allow for military intervention in Iraq and Syria. Does the country present a united front against ISIS?
The Al Nusra Front, an al Qaeda offshoot, is getting help from where it may not have been expecting it.
The Islamic State group used to make millions a day from oil, but after U.S. and allied planes bombed refineries, that money is gone.
In a speech at the World Economic Forum Sunday, President Erdogan said Turkey is prepared to join the fight against ISIS.
Mohsin al-Fadhli, thought to be the leader of the terror group, had a notable career in al Qaeda before turning up in Syria.
Sunni Arab states are supporting U.S. strikes against ISIS in Syria, but will have to deal with a worsening humanitarian crisis.
The Harakat Hazm rebel group, armed with US TOW missiles, condemned the airstrikes in Syria in a statement released on Facebook.
The U.S. targeted the Khorasan group in Syria, an al Qaeda splinter, because it was planning an attack on the west.
The U.S., along with some of its Arab allies, began bombing the stronghold of the Islamic State group in Syria early Tuesday morning.
The airstrikes left an undetermined number of people dead and wounded in the town of Arsal on the Lebanese border.
ISIS bombings in Baghdad Thursday and Friday suggest the militant Islamic State group has made new advances on the ground.
On Thursday, the Islamic State attacked 16 villages in northern Syria, causing thousands of Kurds to flee to Turkey.
Turkish border forces may thwart President Erdogan's plan for a buffer zone to help isolate ISIS in Syria.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is taking advantage of chaos in Yemen; U.S. drones and special forces failed to stop it.
Turkey has become the key entry point for fighters into Syria and Iraq. Without its help, the U.S. will have a hard time getting rid of ISIS.
As Islamist militants fight for Benghazi, Libya moves closer to becoming a place where people with radical agendas are at home.
President Obama chose retired Marine Corps Gen. John Allen to manage the effort to destroy the Islamic State.
In an interview with CNN, Secretary of State John Kerry said the fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria was not a war.
Multiple Mideast powers with their own agendas make forging a coalition difficult.
President Obama said Wednesday that the U.S. would train, fund and arm more moderate opposition rebels in Syria. Who are they?
In the past two weeks, the U.S. has flown surveillance flights over Syria to gather intelligence about ISIS’s bases and movements.
An excerpt of Wednesday evening's speech about ISIS shows President Obama will call for U.S. airstrikes in Syria.
The president also plans to ask Congress for more money to fund and train the moderate opposition in Syria, a source says.
U.S. officials have said the administration's goal is to "degrade and destroy" ISIS. What does that actually mean?
The president reportedly is prepared to authorize airstrikes in Syria against the Islamic State, without approval from Congress.
The U.N.'s Ban Ki-moon asked President Assad to seek a political solution in Syria, which would help in the fight against ISIS.
More than 20 members of Ahrar al-Sham, an ISIS rival in Syria, were killed in a suicide bomb attack Tuesday, including its leader.
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