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A psychology student from the southern U.S. state of Mississippi who tried to travel to Syria with his fiancee to join Islamic State has been sentenced to eight years in prison on federal terrorism charges. Muhammad Dakhlalla, 22, could have faced up to 20 years […]

The war in Syria has become even more complex. Turkey launched a military intervention in Syria on Wednesday, sending tanks across the border and launching air strikes. Turkish-backed rebels reportedly captured the town of Jarablus, in northern Syria, from ISIS. U.S.-backed Kurdish rebels, however, had […]

In the northern Syrian province of Hama, Syrian Armed Forces and its allied forces started a sudden military army operation against al-Nusra Front militants. The decision to storm the terrorists was taken by the command of the Armed Forces after successive attacks by al-Nusra Front […]

On Wednesday, Turkey launched a military operation in the bordering area in the Syrian city of Jarablus. A Turkish army tank and an armoured vehicle are stationed near the Turkish-Syrian border in Karkamis in the southeastern Gaziantep province, Turkey, August 23, 2016. © REUTERS/ Ihlas […]

Turkey upped the stakes of the already ruinous Syrian conflict after it launched a direct offensive across its southern border, targeted ostensibly at Islamic State positions in the northern Syrian town of Jarabulus. With the support of U.S. forces, Turkish tanks motored into Syrian territory […]

Southern Command: Isis coming through the southern US border by the thousands According to the Washington Beacon, Islamic extremists are infiltrating the US border through Mexican smugglers by the thousands. The US has taken in thousands of Syrian refugees legally, but an equal number are […]

From the outside, the Islamic State terror group’s self-declared caliphate appears to be unraveling, its cities lost and its fighters fleeing. There is growing concern, however, that what seems to be a fraying proto-state is actually an enemy force that is fanning out, sacrificing territory […]

Turkish military launched a military operation to liberate the northern Syrian city of Jarablus. A Turkish army tank and an armored vehicle are stationed near the border with Syria, in Karkamis, Turkey, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016 © AP Photo/ IHA via AP Turkey Calls for […]

Hypocrisy, subversion and dirty propaganda tricks are the hallmarks of Western handling of conflicts in the wider Middle East, British Foreign Office (FCO) papers reveal. A batch of FCO files on the Afghan insurgency of the 1980s has just been released by the National Archives […]