Articles by Jeryes S. Khalil

Lebanese Sandy Tabet, 22, fixes her crown after winning the Miss Lebanon 2016 contest at Casino Du Liban in Jounieh, north of Beirut, Lebanon, late Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016. (AP) Staff writer, Al Arabiya English Sunday, 23 October 2016 Text size A A A The […]

President Obama’s two-year-old campaign against the Islamic State is clearly weakening the extremist group. But he’s unlikely to finish the job during his final months, leaving it to his successor, Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, to figure out how to keep ISIS on the run. […]

Kellyanne Conway, campaign manager for Donald Trump, answers questions after the final presidential debate in Las Vegas on Wednesday. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) MIAMI — Donald Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, a longtime Republican pollster, admitted Sunday that her candidate is currently losing to Democrat Hillary Clinton. “We are […]

The US-led coalition’s Mosul operation leaves more questions than answers, observers note, adding that Daesh militants fleeing the Iraqi city of Mosul to Raqqa, Syria, may pose a serious challenge to Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian Arab Army. In this undated file image posted on Monday, June […]

CAIRO — A little known Egyptian group has claimed responsibility for the killing of a senior Egyptian army officer outside his suburban Cairo home. The claim came in a statement by the “Banner of the Revolution” posted late Saturday on social media accounts known to […]

Kurdish Peshmerga fighters backed by Turkish artillery on Sunday claimed major advances against Islamic State extremists outside Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul, at one point claiming to have seized full control of the town of Bashiqa. Peshmerga commanders outside the town told reporters their fighters […]

Kurdish fighters said they had taken the town of Bashiqa near Mosul from Islamic State on Sunday as coalition forces pressed their offensive against the jihadists’ last stronghold in Iraq. Masoud Barzani, President of the Iraqi Kurdish region, told U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter that […]

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST We go to Iraq now, where a major battle for the city of Mosul is underway. It’s the second biggest city in Iraq, and Iraqi forces are trying to take the city back from ISIS, which has held it for the last […]

O Líbano é famoso por sua rara beleza, diversidade, glamour, sabor europeu e povo hospitaleiro. Sua rica cultura e sua história colocaram-no na lista de “preciso ver” de cada viajante do mundo. Cidades libanesas estão entre as mais famosas da historia antiga e majestosa ruínas […]