Two Thirds of Mosul Old City Retaken From IS
Iraqi forces have retaken two thirds of old Mosul, a week after launching an offensive against the Islamic State group's ...
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Saudis ‘foil Suicide Attack’ On Mecca’s Grand Mosque
Saudi Arabia says it has foiled a “terrorist action” against the Grand Mosque in Mecca – Islam’s holiest site. A ...
Journalist With French TV Dies of Wounds From Mosul Blast
Journalist Veronique Robert, wounded in the same landmine blast that killed two colleagues in the Iraqi city of Mosul earlier ...
French TV Journalist Dies of Wounds From Mosul Blast
Journalist Veronique Robert, wounded in the same landmine blast that killed two colleagues in the Iraqi city of Mosul earlier ...
Kurdish Designers Bring Fight With IS To Paris Catwalk
Dilan Lurr and his sister Lezan often ask themselves where would they be now if their parents had not left ...
Hezbollah Says ‘thousands’ of Fighters To Respond If Israel Attacks
The head of Lebanese movement Hezbollah on Friday warned Israel against attacking Lebanon or Syria, saying "hundreds of thousands" of ...
Syria Regime Penetrates IS-Held Eastern Province
Syrian regime forces on Friday broke into the eastern Deir Ezzor province for the first time since 2014, a monitor ...
Bomber Sows Death Among Civilians Fleeing Mosul
A suicide bomber blew himself up Friday among civilians fleeing the Old City of Mosul, where increasingly desperate jihadists are ...
Chants Against Saudi Arabia As Iran Marks Jerusalem Day
Chants against the Saudi royal family and the Islamic State group mingled with the traditional cries of "Death to Israel" ...
Iraq Suicide Blast ‘kills 9’ In Anbar Province
A suicide bomber blew himself up in a town in western Iraq on Friday, killing at least eight civilians and ...
Michigan Airport Attacker Tried To Buy Gun
The man arrested for stabbing a police officer in the neck at a Michigan airport -- in what has been ...
US Condemns Islamic State Demolition of Mosul Mosque
The United States on Thursday branded the Islamic State group's demolition of an 800-year-old mosque in Mosul an attack on ...
Qatar Ideal First Diplomatic Crisis For Oilman Tillerson
The Qatar crisis presents Rex Tillerson with his first challenge as Washington's top diplomat and an opportunity for the former ...
IS Destroys Iconic Mosul Minaret As Iraqi Forces Advance
Mosul's trademark leaning minaret was missing from its skyline for the first time in centuries Thursday after desperate jihadists blew ...
Australia’s Military Resumes Air Operations Over Syria
Australia Thursday lifted a suspension on military air missions over Syria imposed after the shooting down of a Syrian jet ...
FBI Probing Michigan Airport Stabbing As ‘terrorism’
The FBI is investigating as an "act of terrorism" a knife attack on a Michigan airport police officer Wednesday by ...
Deep In Mosul, US Forces Support Iraq’s Fight
In a once-plush house in west Mosul, a handful of US soldiers watch on as an Iraqi commander barks orders ...
IS Blows Up Mosul Mosque Where Baghdadi Announced ‘caliphate’
Jihadists on Wednesday blew up Mosul's iconic leaning minaret and the adjacent mosque where their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared ...
The US Must Take Responsibility For Their Crimes In Syria
At the background of the previous incidents, the development of the current situation in Syria has taken a different turn. ...
Islamic Militants Attack Philippine Village
Islamic militants launched a day-long assault on a southern Philippine village Wednesday during which they held 31 people hostage inside ...