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Men got haircuts and shaved their beards. Women lit up cigarettes and burned their niqabs. Residents of Manbij, Syria, who had lived under the Islamic State for nearly two years, came out onto the streets and celebrated, shedding tears of joy. “May God destroy them. […]

TUZ KHURMATU, Iraq — The front line south of this bleak and dusty town looks much as it did two years ago, when the Islamic State was the enemy and controlled a village less than a mile away. Now, however, the Kurdish peshmerga fighters holed […]

There is evidence that Daesh militants are attempting to flee the Syria’s city of Manbij and the Syrian Army, backed by the US coalition, liberated the city, according to the US Department of Defense. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The Syrian Army, backed by the US coalition, […]

Ahmet İbrahim, one of the commanders of the units of Manbij Military Council has told Sputnik that the city of Manbij in the Aleppo Governorate has been fully liberated from the Daesh jihadists. The operation on the liberation of the city from the Daesh militants, […]

The rebels’ recent breakthrough in the Aleppo siege was done with cash and supplies being ferried in for weeks from its regional backers, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar, with the US turning a blind eye to the activities in order to pile pressure on Russia […]

Manbij women have been ripping off their burqas and burning them, smoking cigarettes, while men cut off their beards, all while rejoicing at their newly obtained freedom after the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) drove jihadists from the Syrian city. Mass jubilation engulfed the northern Syrian […]

IRBIL, Iraq: The U.N. refugee agency says that more than 100,000 people have been displaced as Iraqi forces clear territory ahead of the critical battle for the Islamic State-held city of Mosul. Iraqi leaders have repeatedly promised that Mosul — in IS hands for more […]

HUA HIN, Thailand: Attackers using firebombs and homemade explosives struck a series of popular resort cities and beach towns across Thailand in some of the worst violence to hit the country since a military coup two years ago. At least four people were killed and […]

Pope Francis has visited 20 former prostitutes at a safe house in Rome where they had managed to find refuge from their pimps. The 79-year-old pontiff spent over an hour talking to the women, most of whom had been trafficked from Africa and eastern Europe. […]