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After Daesh published photos of a cache of weapons and an identification card belonging to an American soldier, a military official made a statement Tuesday claiming that US soldiers abandoned their weapons and equipment when they came under fire. General Charles Cleveland, US military spokesman, […]

In its new propaganda video Islamic State has resorted to its increasingly prominent tactic of using children to record its messages – in this case a little girl who beheads a doll with a knife, to symbolize killing “infidels.” Many such children later become suicide […]

Germany’s SEK special police have detained an allegedly high-ranking ISIL member. The 24-year old Syrian refugee was arrested on Friday following a tip-off from a prisoner in Gelsenkirchen, in North Rhine-Westphalia. It led to the SEK raid on an address in neighbouring Rhineland Palatinate, in […]

At least nine people have been killed in a Saudi-led coalition airstrike on the Yemeni capital, Sanaa. The assault is reported to be the first in recent months, and adds to the growing civilian death toll during the prolonged operation against Houthi forces. Civilian deaths […]

The Taliban and ISIS don’t have solutions for Afghanistan, neither does the US. It only exacerbates religious, sectarian and tribal differences, says Sara Flounders of the International Action Center. The US arms one group against another to keep war going, she adds. Trends Islamic State […]

More than two million people in Syria’s Aleppo are in danger of coming under total siege, the United Nations has warned, calling for immediate access to the heavily bombed city. Ferocious fighting has rocked divided Aleppo in recent weeks, with opposition and regime forces seizing […]

Between 2002 and 2015, the Islamic State was either directly or indirectly responsible for terrorist attacks that killed more than 33,000 people and wounded 41,000 more, according to a new analysis from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism. It’s […]

The Lebanese judoka Nacif Elias who will participate in Rio for his first Olympic Games, set his goal to get on one of the three steps of the podium in his home country.  The least we can say is that Nacif Elias is fearless, and […]

BEIRUT: Labor Minister Sejaan Azzi threatened Monday to take reciprocal action if Stockholm follows through on its decision to deport over 75 Lebanese families currently residing in the Sweden. “If the deportation of these Lebanese families is unjustified from a legal and security perspective, then […]