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WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will suspend weekend preparations for Monday’s presidential debate when they meet separately Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a key U.S. ally in the Middle East. Netanyahu’s office declined to say where the meetings with the two […]

Saudi Arabia is fighting a growing threat from the Islamic State that is both breeding homegrown terrorists and using the kingdom’s conservative religious teachings to undermine the monarchy. Saudi security forces say they detained 17 people this week who belonged to three cells that had […]

Relentless air strikes against the rebel-held section of the divided Syrian city of Aleppo continued Saturday, with many buildings destroyed down to the basements. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says at least 25 people have been killed Saturday. The previous day, at least […]

ISTANBUL/NEW YORK — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Saturday that he was “appalled by the chilling military escalation” in the war-ravaged Syrian city of Aleppo that witnesses said was spearheaded by Syrian forces and their Russian allies. In a statement, Ban also heaped criticism on […]

Syrian government and rebel forces battled for control of high ground on the Aleppo outskirts on Saturday as warplanes bombed the city’s opposition-held east relentlessly in a Russian-backed offensive that has left Washington’s Syria policy in tatters. In their first major ground advance of the […]

The United Nations has censured a deadly Saudi airstrike against a residential neighborhood in Yemen’s western and coastal province of Hudaydah, arguing that such aerial assaults against the impoverished Arab country have intensified since July. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, in a statement released on […]

The Saudis step deeper into trouble almost by the week. Swamped in their ridiculous war in Yemen, they are now reeling from an extraordinary statement issued by around two hundred Sunni Muslim clerics who effectively referred to the Wahhabi belief – practiced in Saudi Arabia […]

The Egyptian foreign minister says his country’s attitude toward the ongoing deadly conflict in Syria differs from that of Saudi Arabia, which has been supporting militant groups fighting to unseat the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Sameh Shoukry said on Friday that terrorist groups […]

Nineveh Operations Command on Thursday announced that over 160 ISIS terrorists were killed in an airstrike conducted by the international coalition aircraft east of Shirqat. According to Nineveh Operations Command: “The international coalition aircraft this morning bombarded an ISIS gathering at Al Safina village, east […]