Syria

A jihadist bride arrested at Heathrow with her son is understood to be the first to return to Britain with a child born under Islamic State in Syria.

Buttressed by aerial bombardment and cross-border artillery fire, the ground personnel are advancing inside the Syrian territory along with tanks.

Syrian regime warns Turkish warplanes will have "no picnic" in its territorial airspace and vows to "destroy" the invading jets.

A group of teenagers from London had planned to travel to Syria via Turkey only for their school to notify anti-terror police.

A top leader in the US military refused to mince his words when he issued a violent threat to terrorist group Isis.

Tamaulipas on the US border and Sinaloa, Colima, Michoacan and Guerrero on the Pacific coast are the states that have been put under the most dangerous places.

Emir was one of six children killed by Syrian and Russian air strikes on Eastern Ghouta on Monday. Since 29 December, 126 people, including 29 children, have lost their lives.

A total of 13 unidentified, rudimentary drones, carrying IEDs and guided by GPS, attempted to attack a Russian airbase.

The UK has lost track of hundreds of British jihadist fighters who travelled to the Middle East to join radical Islamic groups, the security minister admitted.

Monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights warns children among dead following bombings in rebel-held towns.

Syrian Refugee Support Group of Calgary members will donate blood and recruit new donors on New Year's Day to help during the Canadian blood shortage.

Isis fighters fleeing Iraq and Syria are thought to have headed towards Turkey, the route many British travelled to join the group.

A few desperately sick children have been evacuated to hospitals in Damascus from the besieged rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta, but many more remain.

Ismael Watson, formally Jack Watson, from Walsall, has been jailed for planning to join Isis before his pregnant wife told the authorities.

Syrians are covering one eye in photos to support #SolidaritywithKarim after baby lost one eye in artillery attack on eastern Ghouta by Bashar al-Assad's regime.

Scotland houses 2,000 Syrian refugees three years ahead of schedule through the Syrian Vulnerable Person Resettlement Programme, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announces.

IBTimes UK looks back at how the fight to rid Iraq and Syria of the jihadists played out across the year, in 100 powerful photos.

Russian money made its way to Assad regime's chemical weapons programme and the oil trade with Isis, BuzzFeed investigation into slush funds reveals.

"I have taken a decision: a significant part of the Russian troop contingent located in Syria is returning home to Russia," Putin said.

The UN said children are stranded in a rebel-held suburb near Damascus and five have reportedly died from a lack of medical care.

New UNHCR report reveals 10-year-old Syrian refugee boys and gay, transgender, intersex individuals are being raped and tortured in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan.

Ollie Hall, who volunteered with Kurdish People's Protection Units, dies in explosion in recently liberated Raqqa.

Isis bride Tania Georgelas, wife of John Georgelas, opens up about converting to Islam and life as jihadi wife in Syria.

The son of British Isis recruiter Sally Jones, who was killed in a US airstrike, is believed to be alive and fighting for Isis.

Baghdadi, who has rarely made any public appearance since announcing the creation of Isis in 2014, has often been reported dead or injured in the past three years.

Blast happened at a checkpoint near recently liberated Deir el-Zour where locals were awaiting passage into Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) territory.

Hours after the Syrian army liberated the city of Deir al-Zour from Isis, came the news that Iraqi forces had entered al-Qaim.

Three years after its emergence, Isis has been progressively losing territories in both Syria and Iraq, leading most of its members to break ranks and abandon the group.

A six-month pregnant American teenager, who was taken to Syria against her will by her father, is set to return home to Kansas.

The bride wore white, the female guests wore colourful clothes, and men and women danced together as music rang out across the war-ravaged Jazra area of the city of Raqqa.