ISIL militants locked in street-to-street battles with security forces in a southern Philippine city have killed 19 civilians, the military said Sunday, bringing the official death toll from nearly a week of fighting to at least 85. Authorities said the militants had killed 19 civilians in Marawi, a mostly Muslim-populated ...
Syrian troops and allied forces have pushed back ISIL militants and US-backed opposition fighters, gaining control of a large swath of territory in the country’s strategic southern desert, Syria media said Saturday. With the new advances, the government and allied troops secured an area nearly half the size of neighboring ...
