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Driving frantically through the empty, dilapidated streets of Aleppo’s Al-Salhin district, first responders race to reach victims of the community’s latest airstrike, in a heart-wrenching video that offers a rare glimpse into Syria’s raging civil war. Tires screech and the ambulance swerves wildly as a […]

Sohrab Ahmari, Editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal, announced on Twitter that he is converting to Catholicism. His tweet read: “#IAmJacquesHamel: In fact, this is the right moment to announce that I’m converting to Roman Catholicism.” The hashtag “IAmJacquesHamel” refers to the French priest […]

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) has released a video that purportedly shows the two men who killed a priest in a French church pledging allegiance to the armed group. The footage, which was posted on Wednesday on […]

KRAKOW, Poland — Pope Francis, deeply saddened by the slaying of an elderly priest during Mass in a church in the French countryside, warned grimly Wednesday that the world is at war, but cautioned against labeling it a war among religions. At the start of […]

Saudi Arabia wants to be the world gas station no longer. Can the kingdom build a new economy? Will the Russian business be able to enter the Saudi market? Pravda.Ru talked about it in an interview with orientalist and expert on doing business in the […]

There is ample circumstantial evidence that Russia is interfering in the U.S. presidential election in order to boost Donald Trump, who not only displays reverence for Russian President Vladimir Putin but also has advocated policies that would pay big dividends for Moscow (e.g. backing away […]

MANBIJ – The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are facing difficulties in fighting militants of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria’s border city of Manbij “because ISIS is killing civilians”, the British volunteer Macer Gifford told ARA News. “The biggest challenge the SDF has found is […]

BERLIN — After a week bookended by terrorist attacks, Germans are now clear that they, too, are targets of the Islamic State, leaving them longing for the sense of order that is their pride and bedrock of success. The attacks started with an ax-wielding teenager […]

Eventual victory against the Islamic State could well lead to an uptick of terrorist attacks in the West, not a reduction in them, James B. Comey, the director of the F.B.I., said on Wednesday. “At some point there is going to be a terrorist diaspora […]