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Turkey has accusing members of the European Parliament of turning the the institution into a “a tool of…propaganda of a bloody terrorist organization” in protest at a Brussels photo exhibition. The exhibition of photos by Austrian anthropologist Thomas Schmidinger took place on the premises of […]

British journalist John Cantlie has appeared in a new Islamic State militant group (ISIS) propaganda video, the twelfth release that features the hostage. The three-minute video shows 45-year-old Cantlie with longer hair and a gaunt appearance in front of Mosul University in Iraq’s second-largest city, […]

People claiming to represent the Islamic State have claimed responsibility for several deadly attacks in the past two weeks. The attacks came shortly after Islamic State forces lost territory in both Iraq and Syria. They are evidence of the group’s plans to remain the world’s leading […]

The Obama administration’s offer to coordinate air attacks in Syria with Russia has opened a deepening rift between senior national security officials who insist it could quiet Syria’s civil carnage and further larger counterterrorism goals, and those who consider it a counterproductive sellout to the […]

Lebanon will not join any international coalitions operating in Syria, limiting cooperation to intelligence sharing, Lebanese Ambassador to Russia Chawki Bou Nassar told Sputnik. “Lebanon will never interfere officially. Of course, as we said, some political parties are interfering, Hezbollah and the others, but the […]

With just over six months left until the end of his Presidency, President Obama was reminded recently that he stands to leave office as the first two-term President who presided over eight years of seemingly endless military conflict: Throughout this trip, Mr. Obama has confronted […]

ubsequent to heavy clashes with militants of the Islamic State (ISIS), the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Monday made new gains in the northern countryside of Aleppo, killing and wounding dozens of ISIS militants, military sources reported. The SDF troops clashed with ISIS fighters […]

A suicide bomber blew up his car near a crowded outdoor market northeast of Baghdad on Tuesday morning, killing at least 11 people and injuring at least 32 more in the predominantly Shiite district. The incident occurred after a man drove a pick-up truck loaded […]

The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan said Tuesday that U.S. troops are shifting the primary emphasis of recently approved operations against the Taliban to the eastern part of the country, where a variety of insurgents remain entrenched. Army Gen. John. W. Nicholson Jr. told […]