MOSUL IS A GRAVEYARD: FINAL IS BATTLE KILLS 9,000 CIVILIANS

But Mosul's gravediggers, its morgue workers and the volunteers who retrieve bodies from the city's rubble are keeping count... READ MORE›

9,000-PLUS DIED IN BATTLE WITH ISLAMIC STATE GROUP FOR MOSUL

Iraqi or coalition forces are responsible for at least 3,200 civilian deaths from airstrikes, artillery fire or mortar rounds... READ MORE›

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'STAGGERING' LOSS OF LIFE REPORTED FROM U.S.-LED AIR RAIDS ON ISIS-HELD RAQQA

Commission of Inquiry on Syria, said Wednesday that coalition airstrikes had now deepened suffering in a city already under the yoke of extremist fighters... READ MORE›

ISIS DESTROYS MORE ARTIFACTS IN SYRIA AND IRAQ

But Thursday was the first time that the Islamic State said it had destroyed Palmyra statues... READ MORE›

THREE SPANISH JOURNALISTS MISSING IN SYRIA, FEARED KIDNAPPED BY ISLAMIC STATE

Antonio Pampliega, JosA C Manuel LA?pez and A?ngel Sastre were last heard from on 12 July in Aleppo, says Spanish Federation of Journalists... READ MORE›

ISIS HELD US AID WORKER AS SEX SLAVE BEFORE DEATH

DOHUK Iraq Somewhere in territory controlled by the Islamic State Kayla Mueller an American aid worker was chained in a room with other female captives... READ MORE›

OFFERING SERVICES ISIS DIGS IN DEEPER IN SEIZED TERRITORIES

ERBIL Iraq In northern Syria the jihadists of the Islamic State have fixed power lines dug sewage systems and painted sidewalks... READ MORE›

MAP: THERE ARE 10 WORLD HERITAGE SITES IN IRAQ AND SYRIA. NINE ARE IN DANGER.

Islamic State group jihadists seized Syria's Palmyra on Thursday, as UNESCO warned that the destruction of the ancient city would be an enormous loss to humanity... READ MORE›

FIRST U.S.-TRAINED SYRIA REBEL BELIEVED KILLED IN FIGHTING

Defending the U.S.-trained fighters could become a growing job for United States, which has been waging air strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria... READ MORE›

DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS WITHDRAWS FROM KUNDUZ

The medical charity Doctors Without Borders has withdrawn from the northern Afghan city of Kunduz after 19 people were killed in an airstrike that destroyed its hospital... READ MORE›

GERMANY'S MERKEL SEES NEED TO COOPERATE WITH RUSSIA ON SYRIA

Syrian envoy Staffan de Mistura's plan to create a Syrian contact group... READ MORE›

ISIL THREATENS SLAUGHTER IN THE STREETS OF THE WEST

He said Mr Kassig was a selfless humanitarian worker who had gone to the region to help care for those fleeing the Syrian conflict... READ MORE›

HAVE US TACTICS ONLY HELPED TO MAKE ISLAMISTS MORE POWERFUL?

Isis, a year of the caliphate Have US tactics only helped to make Islamists more powerful?... READ MORE›

SYRIAN GIRLS 'SOLD' INTO FORCED MARRIAGES

Many of the young girls are sourced from refugee camps in Jordan that house more than 120 000 Syrian refugees... READ MORE›

'FIGURES PLUCKED OUT OF THIN AIR'

US report on civilian casualties in Iraq Syria 'Figures plucked out of thin air'... READ MORE›

GOOD RIDDANCE TO REYAAD KHAN AND RAHOUL AMIN

But as the crisis in Syria gets worse by the day, doing nothing is simply no longer an option for the Government... READ MORE›

AFGHANISTAN: SURGE IN CIVILIAN, CHILDREN DEATH TOLLS

Civilian casualties touched a record high in the first half of 2016, with 388 children killed and 1,121 wounded... READ MORE›

It was not clear whether the Arab commitment to take all necessary action against Islamic State and other militant groups would include direct military involvement in Iraq or Syria... READ MORE›

'US MILITARY CAN NO LONGER PLEAD 'COLLATERAL DAMAGE' WHEN IT'S BEEN HAPPENING FOR 17 YEARS'

RT America has been guilty of collateral damage in the past. Why does it keep happening?... READ MORE›

ASSAD 'CONFIDENT' OF RUSSIAN SUPPORT FOR SYRIA REGIME

The Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has expressed strong confidence that Russia will continue supporting his embattled regime... READ MORE›

RAF BOMBERS COULD STRIKE AGAINST ISIS IN SYRIA WITHIN WEEKS

RAF bombers could strike against ISIS in Syria within weeks to stem the flow of refugees into Europe... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC STATE AND AL-QAEDA 'AGREE DEAL' IN SYRIA

Isil and Jabhat al-Nusra have battled bitterly for more than a year to dominate the rebellion against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad... READ MORE›

OBAMA CONFIRMS DEATH OF US HOSTAGE PETER KASSIG AFTER ISIS RELEASES VIDEO

After being deployed in Iraq as a US army ranger, Kassig set up a medical charity to run aid to Syrian refugees in 2007... READ MORE›

IRAQ DENIES AIR STRIKE CAUSED CIVILIAN DEATHS

Iraq's military has cast doubt on reports that an air strike by the US-led coalition caused the deaths of dozens of civilians in west Mosul... READ MORE›

US HITS BACK AT CORBYN SPOKESMAN CLAIM AMERICA EQUALLY GUILTY AS RUSSIA FOR SYRIA 'ATROCITIES'

Labour MP John Woodcock attack Corbyn's spokesman for suggesting US and Russian actions in Syria were similar... READ MORE›

INTEL ANALYSTS SIFT SPY PLANE FEEDS FOR ISIS TARGETS

16, Air Force warplanes have conducted about two thirds of the 956 airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, Air Force figures show... READ MORE›

FORMER US DRONE TECHNICIANS SPEAK OUT AGAINST PROGRAMME IN BRUSSELS

Whistleblowers Cian Westmoreland and Lisa Ling join campaigners ahead of European parliament hearing on the use of armed drones... READ MORE›

COUNTING THE LOST, ONE BY ONE, IN SYRIA'S BOOK OF THE DEAD

And as the death toll is hovering around 250,000, the list of names and causes of death for Volume 3 are already growing... READ MORE›

AT LEAST 47 KILLED IN CLASHES BETWEEN ISLAMIC STATE AND SYRIAN REBELS

Islamic State said late Friday it had waged a fresh assault on Marea killing dozens of Syrian rebels fighting against it... READ MORE›

SYRIANS PLEAD FOR RELEASE OF US AID WORKER HELD BY ISIS MILITANTS

Friends of Peter Kassig, who became Muslin in captivity and changed his name to Abdul-Rahman, say he is helping victims of the Syrian civil war... READ MORE›

TIME FOR BRITAIN TO SAVE HUMANITY AND HERITAGE FROM ISIL

The destruction of palmyra and europe's resultant migrant crisis both demand a british military response... READ MORE›

US-LED FORCES CONDUCT 23 AIR STRIKES AGAINST ISIS POSITIONS IN SYRIA AND IRAQ

Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga have helped take some villages around Kobani but the lines of control in the town remain the same... READ MORE›