The Iraqi air force has killed a top advisor to Daesh’s ringleader and second-in-command to the terror group’s shadow governor for Mosul, as part of large-scale military operations to liberate the strategic northern city. Iraqi state television reported on Sunday that Mi-35M helicopters carried out […]
In spite of the many kinks remaining to be worked out on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the Pentagon is already looking at what comes next. Last week, US officials made assurances that the $1 trillion, state-of-the-art weapons platform would soon be finished with repairs. […]
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 […]
President Obama’s two-year-old campaign against the Islamic State is clearly weakening the extremist group. But he’s unlikely to finish the job during his final months, leaving it to his successor, Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, to figure out how to keep ISIS on the run. […]
The US-led coalition’s Mosul operation leaves more questions than answers, observers note, adding that Daesh militants fleeing the Iraqi city of Mosul to Raqqa, Syria, may pose a serious challenge to Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian Arab Army. In this undated file image posted on Monday, June […]
CAIRO — A little known Egyptian group has claimed responsibility for the killing of a senior Egyptian army officer outside his suburban Cairo home. The claim came in a statement by the “Banner of the Revolution” posted late Saturday on social media accounts known to […]
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