Lebanon’s US-backed military is gearing up for a long-awaited assault to dislodge hundreds of Islamic State militants from a remote corner near Syrian border Lebanon’s US-backed military is gearing up for a long-awaited assault to [ More … ]
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says it has “confirmed information” that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said on Tuesday that it had [ More … ]
Moscow says its jets may have killed leader of world’s most notorious terror organisation in a May airstrike. If true it would be a major propaganda coup for the Russians. Moscow says its jets may [ More … ]
The United States-led international coalition’s operation to recapture Raqqa from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) started on the night of June 2, Turkey’s prime minister has said, informing that Washington briefed [ More … ]
US-led strikes kill 35 in east Syria, just days after monitor reports highest monthly civilian death toll for coalition. US-led coalition air raids killed at least 35 civilians, including many women and children, in an [ More … ]
Two suspected militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) believed to be planning an attack in Ankara were killed in a police raid early on May 21 in the Turkish capital [ More … ]
Turkey will strike the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the military wing of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), if they do not withdraw from Manbij, a former bastion of the Islamic State of Iraq [ More … ]
NATO Secretary General, Mr. Jens Stoltenberg has met with the Prime Minister of Libya, Mr. Fayez al-Serraj, at NATO Headquarters. General Jens Stoltenberg met the Libyan Prime Minister on Wednesday (1 February 2017) for talks [ More … ]
Turkey has accused the United States of backing “terrorist groups” in Syria Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that he had evidence that US-led coalition forces give support to the Islamic State of [ More … ]
A total of 16 Turkish soldiers were killed on Wednesday in an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attack in the northern Syrian city of al-Bab, as Turkish troops and Ankara-backed Syrian rebels [ More … ]
A few days before the Christmas celebrations of the Copt brothers in Egypt, Cairo woke up in the morning of Sunday, December 11, 2016 on a terrorist bombing inside St. Peter’s Church, adjacent to St. [ More … ]
Tom Malinowski, the US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, has criticized Egypt’s counter-terrorism strategy, describing it as “the worst ever invented.” In a forum at the Washington Institute for Near [ More … ]
A much-anticipated Mosul offensive to liberate the city from Daesh began midnight Sunday, according to Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, reported Anadolu Agency. In an address on state television, Abadi said only the Iraqi army and police [ More … ]
A U.S. airstrike targeting Daesh’s lead propagandist was “successful”, the Pentagon confirmed Monday, reported Anadolu Agency. The Aug. 30 airstrike on Abu Muhammad al-Adnani near al-Bab, Syria “removes from the battlefield ISIL’s chief propagandist, recruiter [ More … ]
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