Articles by Jeryes S. Khalil

KIRKUK, Iraq (AP) — Islamic State militants launched a wave of pre-dawn attacks in and around the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Friday, killing at least 14 people and setting off fierce clashes with Kurdish security forces that were still raging after sundown. The […]

Amidst the bloody revolution to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi, a defiant music scene emerged from the dust of war. After 42 years of non-Arabic music being banned, Benghazi suddenly resounded with a melodic fury, with hip-hop, heavy metal, rock, blues, and even country music echoing around […]

In this week’s UpFront, we talk to the former NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who still maintains the NATO-led air campaign against Muammar Gaddafi in Libya was a “model intervention”. In the Reality Check, Mehdi Hasan explains how, although the refugee crisis in Europe may […]

Heavy clashes erupted between regime and rebel forces in Syria’s divided city of Aleppo after a unilateral ceasefire announced by Russia expired, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said. The first Syrian or Russian air strikes on Aleppo, Syria’s most populous city before the […]

Iraqi army troops on Saturday stormed into a Christian region that has been under Islamic State control since 2014 as part of U.S.-backed operations to clear the entrances to Mosul, the militants’ last major city stronghold in Iraq. The advance took place as U.S. Defense […]

The Russian Ministry of Defense says that the US-led coalition is responsible for striking mourners in the Iraqi city of Daquq on Friday, killing dozens of civilians, including women and children. The coalition jets apparently identified the mourning procession as Islamic State terrorists, said General […]

The Vatican and Egypt’s prestigious Sunni Muslim center of Al-Azhar are resuming their dialogue, at a time that Egypt under President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi is pressing its campaign against Islamic extremism both at home and across the Middle East. Share: VATICAN CITY – The Vatican and […]

MOSCOW — Russia’s largest naval deployment in years raised eyebrows as the flotilla sailed past Norway through the English Channel on the way to the eastern Mediterranean Sea to support Moscow’s air campaign in Syria. The British Royal Navy shadowed the Russian fleet Friday as […]

Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea expressed optimism over the latest developments witnessed on the local political scene, stating that the presidential vacuum will come to an end with a president “made in Lebanon.” Following his meeting with MP Michel Aoun in Rabieh in the presence […]