Before driving into northern Iraq, Dr. Azar Mirkhan changed from his Western clothes into the traditional dress of a Kurdish pesh merga warrior: a tightfitting short woolen jacket over his shirt, baggy pantaloons and a wide cummerbund. He also thought to bring along certain accessories. […]
Sergiu Toma’s historic bronze at the Rio Olympics will inspire the next generation of Emirati judokas to emulate his success, according to the UAE Wrestling, Judo and Kick Boxing Federation. Toma, 29, became only the second UAE Olympian to claim a medal at a Summer […]
A man who was devoted to the Islamic State was shot and killed by police during a standoff in a small Ontario town last night after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said they received “credible information of a potential terrorist threat.” CTV News first […]
An investigation by House Republicans has found that the U.S. military’s Central Command regularly produced intelligence that distorted the results of the campaign against the Islamic State, suggesting that command leaders shaped analysis in a way that resulted in a more upbeat depiction of the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The military campaigns in Iraq and Syria have taken 45,000 enemy combatants off the battlefield and reduced the total number of Islamic State fighters to as few as 15,000, the top U.S. commander for the fight against IS said Wednesday. Lt. Gen. […]
New Delhi: India will look to boost ties with three countries in West Asia—Lebanon, Syria and Iraq—during the eight-day-long visit of minister of state for external affairs M.J. Akbar. Akbar’s 17-23 August visit comes in the backdrop of recent military gains by international forces against […]
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 […]
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