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NNA – Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil held on Monday a series of contacts with officials and diplomats abroad in an attempt to facilitate the exportation of Lebanon’s apple production. Bassil mainly spoke with his counterparts in Russia, Egypt, Sudan, Iraq, Jordan, and Algeria; talks featured […]

The U.S. military says two missiles were launched from Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen in the direction of a U.S. ship in the Persian Gulf. Officials say the two missiles, launched over a 60-minute period, landed in the water Sunday, but did not make contact with […]

The United Nations secretary-general has called the Saudi-led aerial bombing Saturday of a Yemeni funeral “heartless” and “an outrageous violation” of international law. “This was a community center known to all,” Ban Ki-moon told reporters Monday. “It was crowded with families and children. Bombing people […]

Islamic State extremists confirmed on Monday the death of one their most senior leaders, whom the Pentagon said was killed early last month in a precision airstrike near the northern Syrian terrorist stronghold of Raqqa. An IS statement posted online memorialized Wa’il Adil Hasan Salman […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin together with his Turkish colleague Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a meeting Monday in Istanbul at which special attention was paid to the situation in Syria. Both leaders called for the urgent end of violence in the region. The leaders have agreed […]

The Iraqi security forces backed by paramilitary groups launched an effort on Monday to squeeze Daesh out of the land strip along the border between the Salahudin and Diyala governorates, according to Iraqi commanders. In this Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012 file photo, smoke rises over […]

The suspect of Syrian origin was building a bomb which he was plotting to detonate inside of an airport in Berlin with the scare renewing concerns about Chancellor Angela Merkel’s controversial open border policy. The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency (BfV) announced that a […]

A new report by the London-based International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) reveals that two thirds of the radical Islamists in Europe have a criminal record, UK media reported. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The report titled “Criminal Pasts, Terrorist Futures: European Jihadists and the […]

Which city is more important for the Islamic State, Syria’s Raqqa, the capital of the terror group’s self-styled caliphate, or Iraq’s Mosul, the much bigger city where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announced more than two years ago the creation of his caliphate straddling Iraq and Syria? […]