The Yazidi people of Iraq who fled from Islamic State militants may never be able to return to their homeland, according to the leader of the minority group. Yazidi leader Prince Tahseen Saeed Ali told VOA during a trip to London that his people feel […]
UN chief Ban Ki-moon is “appalled by the chilling military escalation” in the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo, his spokesman says. Stephane Dujarric said the secretary-general was alarmed by reports of air strikes involving incendiary weapons and bunker-busting bombs. The Syrian government has stepped up […]
KOYA, Iraq (AP) — The main Kurdish insurgent group in Iran will keep up its guerrilla campaign against security forces “to protect and defend” Kurds living there, its deputy leader said, calling the fight necessary after the Islamic Republic’s nuclear deal with world powers. A […]
Samarra (Iraq) (AFP) – Militants killed 12 people in gun and bomb attacks on Saturday in the northern city of Tikrit, police said, with the Islamic State group later claiming responsibility for the violence. IS seized Tikrit in June 2014, but the city has largely […]
BAGHDAD (AP) — An unlikely array of forces is converging on the city of Mosul, lining up for a battle on the historic plains of northern Iraq that is likely to be decisive in the war against the Islamic State group. The usual alliance — […]
Syrian and Russian warplanes continued to target terrorist groups’ concentration centers in at least seven districts of Aleppo city, paving the way for the ground troops to raid militants’ positions. Syrian and Russian fighter jets, for the second day in a row, pounded terrorists’ strongholds […]
ISTANBUL — The U.S.-supported, Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) forces this week suffered a series of military setbacks to the Islamic State group in northern Syria, rekindling concerns over the effectiveness of the troops and whether that could force Ankara to deploy more of its […]
UNITED NATIONS — Russia’s foreign minister said Friday that Syria’s moderate opposition must separate from certain terrorist groups before there can be a real cessation of hostilities. “So we are all in favor of a cease-fire, but without separation of the opposition from Nusra, the […]
WASHINGTON — Islamic State fighters trying to hold on to the terror group’s shrinking, self-declared caliphate appear to be ready to turn their Iraqi capital into a fiery inferno rather than relinquish it to Iraqi forces. U.S. military officials say IS militants are trying to […]
Saudi Arabia is fighting a growing threat from the Islamic State that is both breeding homegrown terrorists and using the kingdom’s conservative religious teachings to undermine the monarchy. Saudi security forces say they detained 17 people this week who belonged to three cells that had […]
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