The ‘Sniper of Mosul’ is picking off jihadis one-by-one

A renegade sniper has been striking fear into the hearts of terrorists in Mosul — picking off local jihadis one-by-one, including an ISIS executioner...

20 minutes from modern Jerusalem, a Palestinian village is stranded in the past

JUBBET ADH DHIB, West Bank — Let there be light. That is a plea of residents of this Palestinian village who have waited nearly...

Pictures of two Egyptian children engaged to be married trigger outrage — once again

Cairo: At the wedding, held in a province about 75 miles north of Cairo, the guests didn’t find it strange. Some would later tell...

Plans to send heavier weapons to CIA-backed rebels in Syria stall amid White House skepticism

As rebel-held sections of Aleppo crumbled under Russian bombing this month, the Obama administration was secretly weighing plans to rush more firepower to CIA-backed...

Isis kills dozens and seizes hostages in counter-attack on Kirkuk

Battered and in retreat over much of northern Iraq, Islamic State has launched a surprise counterattack far from its last redoubt of Mosul, taking...

Suicide bombers target multiple sites in Iraq’s Kirkuk

A Kurdish intelligence officer confirmed that four suicide bombers had attacked the main police headquarters in the city at around 3:00 am (00:00 UTC...

Wary of Russian Guarantees, Residents Stay Put in War-Torn Aleppo

Many said in interviews they wanted to stay to hold on to their homes, or to continue to resist the government of President Bashar...

How to End Saudi Arabia’s War of Paranoia

Paranoia has long been the basis of Saudi policymaking on Yemen. It used to be paranoia about the Yemenis themselves; now it’s about Iranians....

Iraq’s Elite Soldiers Have Their Sights Set on Mosul

The men wore fatigues and black T-shirts, many adorned with death’s head prints taken from American popular culture, such as the Pirates of the...

Worldly powers devise a plan to take Mosul back from the IS.

The Iraqi Army and coalition forces launched an offensive this week to retake Mosul from the Islamic State. The third day of the campaign to...

Turkey fires NATO military envoys after failed coup: Report

Turkey has fired hundreds of senior military staff serving at NATO in Europe and the United States following the failed July 15 coup, documents...

Turkey cannot be excluded from Mosul operation: Erdogan

Ankara cannot be excluded from the operation launched to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant...
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