An operation is expected to launch against militants near informal refugee camps in the Lebanon’s east, the prime minister said on Tuesday. Lebanese security forces will launch an operation against militants near informal refugee camps [ More … ]
Egypt’s state-run news agency says gunmen have attacked a security checkpoint in Cairo, killing five security forces. Five Egyptian policemen were killed when unknown gunmen attacked a security checkpoint in Giza province, south of the [ More … ]
Somali security forces said on Sunday they had killed 18 Islamist insurgents during an operation in the northern region of Puntland, although the militants denied sustaining any casualties. “We killed 18 militants and burnt six [ More … ]
The Egyptian military also said it killed 40 militants as it clashed with assailants in North Sinai Twenty-six Egyptian soldiers were killed or wounded on Friday in attacks on checkpoints in the Sinai Peninsula where [ More … ]
Egypt is currently battling several armed groups concentrated mainly in the Sinai Peninsula Egypt’s air force struck a unit of ‘Sinai Province’ , killing 12 members of the Islamic State (IS) affiliated group and destroying four [ More … ]
Iraqi forces started storming the Daesh-held Old City of Mosul on Sunday, a military statement said. The historic district is the last still under control of the militants in the city which used to be their [ More … ]
An explosion has been reported in eastern Saudi Arabia, in a city beset with political unrest with the perpetrators still unknown. A car bomb has exploded in the Shia-majority city of Qatif in eastern Saudi [ More … ]
The gunmen opened fire on a bus in the city of Minya in southern Egypt – around 245 km south of Cairo. The bus, which was thought to have been carrying around 50 Coptic Christians, was heading [ 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 … ]
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said he was optimistic about improving military ties with Egypt after talks with Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo, following a period of tension under the Obama administration. The Pentagon stated [ More … ]
Armed clashes between Palestinian joint forces and an Islamic militant group that erupted on Friday night have continued into Saturday in Lebanon’s Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp, as two have been reported dead amid the [ More … ]
The efficiency of the currently followed security measures inside North Sinai’s city of Al-Arish has been a controversial issue on social media outlets in Egypt following the circulation of photos of militants from the ISIS-affiliated group [ More … ]
Militants attacked a checkpoint in a town in southwest Tunisia early on Sunday, killing a policeman and wounding three others, security officials said. Two militants were also killed in an exchange of fire during the [ More … ]
US warplanes pounded Al-Qaeda targets in Yemen for a second straight day Friday, killing eight militants, security and tribal sources said as Washington boosts its air war against the terrorists. A defense official in Washington [ More … ]
In Trump’s first foreign operation, the US killed at least one Yemeni child and lost a $70 million military aircraft The mission facing the US Navy SEALS as they approached a remote desert compound was [ More … ]
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