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Islamic State expanded its attacks on Monday against the army and Kurdish forces across Iraq, trying to relieve pressure on the militant group’s defenses around Mosul, its last major urban stronghold in the country. About 80 Islamic State-held villages and towns have been retaken in […]

QAYARA, Iraq (AP) — Bayda Muhammad Khalaf followed the government’s advice to stay in her home with her husband and seven children as Iraqi troops advanced near their remote village outside militant-held Mosul. But after the Islamic State fighters fled and Iraqi troops didn’t appear, […]

Up to a million people are trapped in the Islamic State-controlled city of Mosul. As Iraqi, Kurdish and tribal forces close in, men, women and children are expected to come streaming out. Protecting them will be one of the largest, most complex humanitarian operations in […]

DEBAGA, IRAQ — When Peshmerga soldiers cut off Islamic State’s supply route from Mosul to her village in Hawija, sugar prices suddenly shot up 30 times, according to Layla, a mother of three. She had survived two years of airstrikes and despotic rule from Islamic State […]

A group of militants held some 200 cadets after storming a police facility in southwestern Pakistan. At least 51 people were killed, with dozens more wounded, according to reports. At least two of those killed were police officers, while another three were the gunmen. Over […]

El secretario general de Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, recibió la noche del domingo al jefe del bloque parlamentario de Cambio y Reforma, Michel Aoun, informa un comunicado del partido chií el lunes por la mañana. Aoun fue acompañado por el líder de la Corriente Patriótica Libre, […]

El secretario general de Hizbulah, Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, afirmó que la Resistencia libanesa volverá al Líbano sólo cuando logren la victoria final en Siria y neutralicen el complot para dividirla. En ceremonia celebrada el domingo para rendir tributo a Hatem Hamadeh, comandante de alto rango […]

Hablando durante una ceremonia de apertura de una institución educativa en Busra el sábado, el presidente turco, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, comparó la forma en la que los sirios e iraquíes han sido expulsados de sus hogares por el EI a la manera en la que […]

Tras más de dos años de vacío de poder, un nuevo acuerdo político despeja la vía para que el Líbano vuelva a tener presidente. Michel Aoun, líder de Cambio y Reforma, tiene todas las papeletas para ser escogido como nuevo jefe de Estado del Líbano […]