The Latest Breaking News from IS

A Swedish court on Tuesday sentenced a 52-year-old woman to 12 years in prison on genocide charges, in the country's first court case over crimes by the Islamic State group against the Yazidi minority.

McDonald's earnings and revenue slightly missed Q4 estimates. Global same-store sales unexpectedly edged up.

Humanitarian groups worried north-east Syrian camps holding suspected IS members will lose basic facilities

Kurdish leaders are negotiating with the new authorities in Damascus

In a society riven by conflict and misogyny, the autonomous region of Rojava has a government with perhaps the most complete gender equality in the world

Competing interests and rivalries between regional powers threaten hopes of change after the fall of Bashar al-Assad

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The sudden collapse of the Syrian government and President Bashar Assad’s flight to Russia in December marked a dramatic turning point for the country.

The decimation of USAid is already having a terrible effect in some of the poorest places on the planet. It damages America: it will harm us all, says Gordon Brown, the UN’s special envoy for global education

The leaning minaret of Mosul in northern Iraq has been restored using its original brickwork, years after it was reduced to rubble under Islamic State group rule.

A prison in Syria holds about 4,500 members of the Islamic State group who have been there for years without trial