New Offensive Aims at ISIS’ Heart

30 May 2016 English

Kurdish-led forces are attacking militant positions north of the Islamic State’s de facto capital, Raqqa, Syria. The Times correspondent Rukmini Callimachi explains how the fall of Raqqa could incite sectarian tensions.

Freed Fallujah not leveled, as Iraqi Army learns lesson of Ramadi

1 July 2016 English

The long-awaited liberation of Fallujah this week came with minimal damage to the city’s infrastructure, Iraqi officials claim, unlike the disastrous campaign to free Ramadi from ISIS, in which bomb damage and civilian casualties amounted to a Pyrrhic victory. Backed by U.S. air power – […]

Wenn Leben nur noch unter der Erde möglich ist

15 June 2016 Deutsch

Das Leben in der einst weltoffenen Wirtschaftsmetropole Aleppo im Norden Syriens ist unter die Erde abgewandert. Unten treffen sich die Menschen zum Fußball gucken, darüber fallen Bomben. Die Opferzahlen steigen wieder. Das, was vom gesellschaftlichen Leben in Aleppo geblieben ist, spielt sich unter der Erde […]

Death Toll in Sinai Attack Rises to 12 Egyptian Soldiers: Sources

26 November 2016 English

ISMAILIA, EGYPT — The death toll from an attack on an Egyptian military checkpoint on Thursday in the restive northern Sinai Peninsula has climbed to 12, medical sources said on Friday. The military said late on Thursday that militants had killed eight soldiers and that […]