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 … ]
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s unsurprising 97 percent win, announced Monday after a widely-derided sham election, asserts the recession of civil environment in Egypt and thus, reaffirms the exponential power of the military’s influence in nearly every facet [ More … ]
Army moves into Nile Delta and northern Sinai to confront ‘terrorist elements’, days after gearing up hospitals to expect influx of casualties The Egyptian army announced on Friday it had launched a major operation against [ More … ]
Oil industry sources said Libya had lost around 90,000 barrels as a result of the explosion Armed men were responsible for the explosion that damaged a Libyan crude oil pipeline on Tuesday, a military source [ More … ]
The Syrian Democratic Forces said they captured a major oil field in Deir Ezzor province on Sunday, pressing their offensive against Islamic State fighters in eastern Syria. The US-backed group said they took al-Omar field [ 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 … ]
At least 12 civilians were killed after a suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt blew himself up inside a popular cafe, a military source told The New Arab. Scores of people were killed in a [ 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 … ]
Turkish authorities detained a Russian suspected member of the Islamic State for allegedly plotting a drone attack on an American warplane at a US base in southern Turkey. A Russian suspected member of the Islamic [ More … ]
Locals warn of dwindling resources as Khalifa Haftar’s siege of the city enters seventh day Residents of the eastern city of Derna are facing critical shortages as Libya’s General Khalifa Haftar’s troops, Known as Libyan [ More … ]
IS is losing ground fast in Syria to separate campaigns waged by Russian-backed Syrian army and by US-backed Kurdish forces and their allies Syrian government and allied forces have taken the last major town in [ More … ]
US Special Forces are operating in Lebanon ahead of an imminent battle with Islamic State group militants near the north-eastern border with Syria, the department of defence has confirmed. US Special Forces are operating in [ More … ]
The refugees and fighters from al-Qaeda’s former Syrian branch arrived in bus convoys into the rebel-held area of Al-Saan in the central Syrian Hama province. Nearly 8,000 Syrian refugees and fighters from Lebanon arrived in [ More … ]
A senior Iraqi general predicts the battle for IS-held Tal Afar to be relatively easy, with IS militants “worn out and demoralised” after their Mosul defeat. A senior Iraqi general predicted a relatively easy victory [ More … ]
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