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August 11 at 3:00 PM Iraqi counter-terrorism forces advance their positions in Fallujah, Iraq, in June. (Hadi Mizban/Associated Press) President Obama has suggested that the threat of Islamist terrorism is overblown, lecturing the country to “maintain a proper perspective and that we do not provide […]

New York Times reporter Rukmini Callimachi is known for her in-depth reporting on terrorism and the Islamic State. Her recent jailhouse interview with Harry Sarfo, a German citizen who joined ISIS and trained in Syria before disavowing the group, revealed the organization’s particular interest in […]

Aleppo, Syria, has been besieged, battered, and starved for months. This week, 15 of the remaining 35 doctors in the city are pleading for help. They wrote to President Obama, asking him to end the bombings by the Russian-backed Syrian air force. “We do not […]

For years, Asuman Antepli, a nurse at a hospital in North Carolina , said people mostly just ignored the head-covering hijab she wears as a mark of her Muslim faith. Occasionally, a patient might make an insulting comment, but she would put that down to […]

One of the three London schoolgirls who made headlines last year when they fled their homes to join the Islamic State extremist group in Syria is believed to have been killed by a Russian airstrike, a British television channel reported on Thursday. The ITV News […]

UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations and its partners are “ready to roll” with aid to Syrians in besieged areas, but the deteriorating security situation in the country is keeping it from being delivered, the U.N. humanitarian chief said Tuesday. Undersecretary-General Stephen O’Brien said that attacks […]

Following the example of her high compatriot Gabrielle Doueihy, Anthony Barbara, who will participate in the contest of the 50ms free swim, takes part of five Lebanese athletes who benefited of an invitation to the Olympic Games of Rio De Janeiro. Anthony John Barbara, with […]

Friday night saw a parade of athletes from nearly every country around the world, but even in a time of music and celebration, information was passed along to news sources that didn’t quite pass muster when held up to the light. It seems that Palestinian […]

An increasing number of asylum seekers in Germany fed up with the slow processing of their asylum requests have filed nearly 6,000 legal complaints about reviewing their refugee applications for too long. The German Ministry for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) confirmed the number to the […]