Marines arrive in Syria in support of fight for Raqqa, defense official says By Lucas Tomlinson Published March 08, 2017 FoxNews.com Facebook Twitter livefyre Email Print Now PlayingUS Marines on the ground in Syria Never autoplay videos A detachment of U.S Marines arrived in Syria […]
JERUSALEM — A law to muffle mosques’ amplified calls to prayer in Israel and occupied East Jerusalem won preliminary approval on Wednesday in a charged parliamentary session where Arab legislators denounced the measure as racist. Supporters of the bill say it is aimed at improving […]
The Manbij Military Council has handed control of several areas west of the city of Manbij to the Syrian Army, as part of a Moscow-brokered deal to create a buffer zone between Kurds and the Turkish army. Geopolitics analyst Gevorg Mirzayan explains why the deal […]
The top U.S. commander in Iraq on Wednesday downplayed the chances that the United States would deploy a large number of additional coalition forces to battle Islamic State, even as President Donald Trump weighs options to speed the campaign. Army Lieutenant General Stephen Townsend also […]
Egypt’s top appeals court on Thursday acquitted Hosni Mubarak of involvement in the killing of protesters during a 2011 revolt, ending the final trial for the strongman who ruled for 30 years. Mubarak had been sentenced to life in 2012 but an appeals court ordered […]
The Syrian military said Thursday that it had re-captured the town of Palmyra from Islamic State militants for the second time in a year. A statement from the army said the government is in control of the whole city. The government was able to take […]
ISMAILIA, EGYPT — Christian families and students fled Egypt’s North Sinai province in droves Friday after Islamic State killed the seventh member of their community in just three weeks. A Reuters reporter saw 25 families gathered with their belongings in a church in the Suez Canal […]
Iraq said Thursday that its U.S.-backed forces had retaken the airport in Mosul, which Islamic State extremists had controlled since 2014. In a flash on its screen, state television declared, “The Rapid Response Forces and federal police are fully in control of the airport of […]
Iraqi security forces have recaptured Mosul airport, a key part of the government’s offensive to drive the so-called Islamic State (IS) from the western half of the city. The operation took four hours. IS continued to fire mortars at the airport from further inside the […]
Israel’s environment ministry announced Wednesday it will not renew the license of an ammonia container in the port city of Haifa as it poses a potentially deadly threat to residents. The container, which holds 12,000 tons of the toxic, corrosive liquid, puts the public “at […]
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