A senior Turkish official said Turkey has captured the older sister of the slain leader of Daesh in northwestern Syria, calling the arrest an intelligence “gold mine.” Little is known about the sister of Abu [ More … ]
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi targeted in US raid in Syria. Trump says Baghdadi died whimpering and screaming US President Donald Trump has confirmed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead. He blew himself up [ More … ]
12 militants on death row were executed shortly after Abadi’s statement in response to murders of captives by Islamic State group Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Thursday ordered the immediate execution of hundreds of [ More … ]
Israeli forces carried out strikes in the Egyptian-ruled Sinai Peninsula recently, targeting militants positions in northern Sinai, witnesses claimed. According to a report by the London-based Al-Araby Al-Jadeed media outlet, Israeli aircraft hit militants targets inside [ More … ]
Egypt is to extend its nationwide state of emergency for three months from January 13 to help tackle “the dangers and funding of terrorism,” state news agency MENA said on Tuesday. Last April, Egypt first [ More … ]
The Islamic Sate(ISIS)has claimed responsibility for an attack at a Cairo church that left at least nine people dead.The claim, which was carried by the group’s Aamaq news agency, said Friday’s attack was carried out [ More … ]
An Egyptian military officer was killed and two other people were wounded in a missile attack on a military airport near the town of Arish in the North Sinai region on Tuesday, the army spokesman [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities said,”Dozens of men wearing military combat uniforms and armed with automatic machine guns carried out the deadly assault on a Sufi mosque in northern Sinai,”reported the CNN. Twenty-five to 30 attackers arrived in [ More … ]
At least 300 people have died in a militant attack on a mosque in Egypt’s restive Sinai peninsula in one of the worst terrorist incidents the country has seen in recent years. On Friday, Egypt was [ More … ]
Somalia’s security forces conducted a military operation killing 81 Al-Shabaab fighters, the Somali Minister of Information confirmed. Special Forces attacked the Al-Shabaab camp in Jilib district on Saturday, based in the Middle Jubba region in [ More … ]
Syrian activists reacted with anger as Abdullah Ocalan’s image appeared following the liberation of the city from Islamic State Syrian social media users have reacted with alarm after the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) unveiled a [ More … ]
The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces said on Tuesday they had fully captured the Islamic State group’s former Syrian stronghold Raqqa, after more than four months of fighting. The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces [SDF] said on [ More … ]
Amnesty has said that civilians are trapped in the city while according to Airwars several hundred of civilians have died since June The US-led coalition campaign to oust the Islamic State group (IS) from Syria’s [ More … ]
Iraqi forces have advanced from the south into Tal Afar, as the last Islamic State group militants prepare to ‘fight to the death’ in the stronghold. Iraqi forces and pro-government militias have made gains into [ More … ]
The Lebanese army launched an offensive on Saturday against an Islamic State enclave on the northeast border with Syria as the Lebanese Shi’ite group Hezbollah announced an assault on the militants from the Syrian side [ More … ]
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